Quotes About Complexity

You'll meet her, she's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her.

I am a hyphenated person, but I am not falling apart; I am putting together.

How simple is to be happy, how difficult to be simple

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poverty is a complex human condition, and its causes must also be complex. The use of a variety of tools does not mean sacrificing depth of analysis; the point is only not to be simplistic but rather to insist on getting at the deepest causes of the situation, for this is what it means to be truly radical.

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity considerably without contributing much to the ability to express ideas. English, for instance, would have losed none of its expressive power if some of its verbs leaved their irregular past tense behind and becomed regular.

there is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!

Language is mankind's greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.

there is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.

Much of a language's complexity is not necessarily for effective communication.

The wheels of language run so smoothly that one rarely bothers to stop and think about all the resourcefulness and expertise that must have gone into making it tick. Language conceals its art.

Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.

It is an old truth that men and women sometimes miss what they hate as much as what they love.

Devin wondered how often men did what they did, made the choices of their lives, for reasons that were clean and uncomplicated and easily understood as they were happening

It was, Jelena though, another kind of arrogance to believe you could understand the way the world was made. It could not be done, there was too much. You needed to be open to it, though, to what your life gave you and demanded.

La personalidad es algo muy misterioso. No puede valorarse a un hombre por lo que hace. Puede cumplir la ley y ser despreciable. Puede incumplir la ley y aun así ser un caballero. Puede ser malo sin haber hecho nunca nada malo. Puede cometer un pecado contra la sociedad y tomar conciencia, gracias a ese pecado, de su propia perfección...

To many today Oscar is a gay icon who can do no wrong, but, in truth, he was human, multifaceted and no saint. Part of the tragedy of Oscar Wilde is that it is now almost impossible to view him except through the prism of his downfall.

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.

Plantearse el problema del crimen organizado y de su arraigo en Tierra Caliente como un asunto de buenos contra malos fue uno de los errores del gobierno de Felipe Calderón. Vistos desde afuera, sin un conocimiento de la zona y de su historia, todos los habitantes de la región podían entrar en la definición de malos.