Quotes About Complexity

Few human inventions are more complex and tightly coupled than the banking system; Charles

the modern Ukrainian state is that it has never been able to create an all-encompassing post-Soviet narrative of modern Ukrainian history that was broadly accepted by most, if not all.

Grace scares a lot of people because it doesn't come with enough bullet points and three-part outlines for those who would rather not have to think too much.

John Gall wrote, "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over beginning with a working simple system.

For one invariable and distinguishing feature of all Italian regulations is that they are complicated.

He gestured at himself. "You see this, Bekah? This whole package here? It contains multitudes." "I knew you were full of something." "Iron

Life can be complicated; the truth is not.

What Lippmann took from the war—as he explained in his 1922 classic Public Opinion—was the gap between the true complexity of the world and the narratives the public uses to understand it—the rough "stereotypes" (a word he coined in his book). When it came to the war, he believed that the "consent" of the governed had been, in his phrase, "manufactured.

There are a nearly inconceivable number of synapses in the human brain – roughly five times as many as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy!

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.

Out of Control by Kevin Kelly

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."—John Gall

you don't need to understand any of the biology, just as you don't need to understand radiation to use a microwave oven.

Biology isn't about blunt force.

Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

I have come to learn that part of the business strategy is to solve the simplest, easiest, and most valuable problem. And actually, in fact, part of doing strategy is to solve the easiest problem, so part of the reason why you work on software and bits is that atoms [physical products] are actually very difficult.

Language is infinitely expansive (much like cooking) and therefore horribly overwhelming if unfiltered.

Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken.

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible."—Javier Pascual Salcedo

The culture of news is a culture without nuance.

Even today, I still benefit from that because I don't merge and bring things together and see everything as one big problem. I

qué genios tan torturados son. No me convence…

Humans Use Only 10% of Their Brains? Not Quite . . . "The most complex structure in the entire universe doesn't have just a vacant parking lot waiting for someone to drive in and start building. It's all used all the time, and in complex ways that we don't always understand.

and forward thinker. Genome, The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist—they're all great.