Quotes About Complexity

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.

I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.

I think robotics is a really hard problem - to make robots that operate in sort of arbitrary environments, like a big conference room with chairs and stuff.

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. the loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies.

Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

I don't think now that people can be divided into the good and the bad, as though they were two separate races or creations. What are called good women may have terrible things in them, mad moods of recklessness, assertion, jealousy, sin. Bad women. as they are termed, may have in them sorrow, repentence, pity, sacrifice.

Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth.

truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.

wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.