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Quotes About Complexity

Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.
~ Wells Tower
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
~ Albert Einstein
It seems only easier when money is involved.
~ Anthony Liccione
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
~ Sigmund Freud
We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.
~ Eva Green
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.
~ Michael Lindsay-Hogg
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
~ Mariah Carey
Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
~ Jacques Barzun
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
~ Edward Albee
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
~ Dana Delany
Men often marry their mothers.
~ Edna Ferber
But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.
~ J. D. Salinger
Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.
~ Kim Hyesoon
I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
~ Shahrukh Khan
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
~ Mason Cooley
As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
~ Zadie Smith
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
~ Johan Cruijff
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.
~ Judy Chicago
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
~ Sigmund Freud
Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
~ Ross Perot