Quotes About Complexity

Nos interesa el límite peligroso de las cosas. El ladrón honesto, el asesino sensible, el ateo supersticioso. ROBERT BROWNING, Apología del obispo Blougram La política en una obra literaria es un tiro de pistola en medio de un concierto, algo grosero pero imposible de ignorar. Estamos a punto de hablar de asuntos muy feos. STENDHAL, La cartuja de Parma

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they were no longer quite sure what they should be laughing at or objecting to.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.

There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.

Free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of our behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down one by one, then you can always say, Look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the casual chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to.

I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.

Rigg, said Father, you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway

The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world.

most truth can only be expressed in circular paradoxes.

Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.

You don't understand," he said. "Yes I do." "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter." "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me." She had no answer. As far as she knew, Peter didn't love anybody. Ender said nothing more. Just lay there.

Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!)

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

There are too many players in this game," said Ram Odin.

Not that science is particularly pure, except compared to politics.

Ruling the world isn't a chess game," said Peter. "Or if it is, it's a game with a thousand powerful pieces and eight billion pawns, and the pieces keep changing their capabilities, and the gameboard never stays the same. So just how far ahead can you possibly see? All I could do was put myself into a position with the most possible influence, and then exploit whatever opportunities came.

Yet in your stories, you must imagine all these things, not just because it will make the world of your story more complete, but also because the very completeness of the world will transform your story and make it far more truthful. As your characters move through a more complex world, they will have to respond with greater subtlety and flexibility; the constant surprises they run into will also surprise the reader - and you!

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You