Quotes About Complexity

For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

She flinched when I did it, and that involuntary response of hers satisfied me in some small, cheap way. I never claimed I was lovable. Never said I wasn't a son of a bitch.

Joined together, they made a kind of centaur—half bastard, half bitch. Dottie would have laughed out loud at that.

She'd been neither a saint nor a whore, but a fallible, sexual woman.

I am exact and merciless but I love you.

Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.

I contain multitudes

Decoloniality promotes pluriversality as a universal option—which means that what "should be" universal is in fact pluriversal, and not a single totality.

I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.

There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth

Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.

It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple

In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen," said Lack. "He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He's pathological, which can be useful in negotiations. And he's a genius.

Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year

Métase en berenjenales.

They consider people who don't know Hamlet from Macbeth to be Philistines, yet they might merrily admit that they don't know the difference between a gene and a chromosome, or a transistor and a capacitor, or an integral and differential equation. These concepts might seem difficult. Yes, but so, too, is Hamlet. And like Hamlet, each of these concepts is beautiful. Like an elegant mathematical equation, they are expressions of the glories of the universe.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year," he noted. "There is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least ten years.

Steve Jobs's attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them away for free, and he was a Zen devotee who made a pilgrimage to India and then decided that his calling was to create a business. And yet somehow these attitudes seemed to weave together rather than conflict.

Baby You're a Rich Man Before and after he was rich, and indeed throughout a life that included being both broke and a billionaire, Steve Jobs's attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them

the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them.

Instead, what I try to convey to all those who come up to me with a simple reaction is that it's important to look at Jobs not as a saint or a sinner but as a complex and intense and spiritual human whose strengths and flaws were tightly interwoven. People are complicated. Great geniuses are even more complicated. And Steve Jobs was one of the most complicated geniuses of our day and generation.

Leonardo fell into that category. He was born out of wedlock, gay, left-handed, a vegetarian, and was easily distracted, and that helped instill a sense of wonder at how he fit into this world.