Quotes About Complexity

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even when they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

The scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light are very confusing, and quite frankly I can't make head or tail of them, even when my friend Dr. Lorenz explains them to me.

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking....

Some of the simplest things in life are the most difficult to imagine.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

The whole thing is like a jigsaw puzzle, but there are too many missing pieces to solve it.

How could she live?" he asked. "She betrayed me. She betrayed all of us. How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

People aren't either wicked or noble," the hook-handed man said. "They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

An architecture that is not documented, and not communicated, may still be a good architecture, but the risks surrounding it are enormous. —RK

The only thing a man has to know about women is that he'll never know anything about them.

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

Massachusetts, which is hard to spell, it is hard not to

Love, it seems, fits perfectly into no one of these molds for it may be all at once; a state of ecstasy, a state of joy, a state of disillusionment, a rational state or an irrational state

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

You fucked-up hunk.

Inside you there are universes. You contain multitudes.

You don't always have to render the feelings of your characters, but you must know what they are in every scene. That way, the actions and dialogue will have an organic complexity that breathes life into fiction.

I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.