Quotes About Complexity

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

What is new about the emerging world order is that, for the first time, the United States can neither withdraw from the world nor dominate it.

Mao thought he was inscrutable you know. At least I think he did. it was hard to tell with him.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.

Më pëlqen të operuarit, prandaj u bëra kirurg, por jam i përgjegjshëm se truri nuk shërohet njësoj si kockat dhe muskujt

do not understand, and perhaps never will. As the evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane observed, it's not just that the universe might be stranger than we think, but that it might be stranger than we can think.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Managing is about nuance as much as it is about decisiveness.

You see, my poor fellow, the hearts of women and she-cats are abysses that neither men nor toms will ever fathom.

That decision falls to scientists, engineers, and managers—with at least the tacit approval of company officers and boards of directors. All complex technology is inseparably coupled to an equally complex team of people and systems of people who should interact with one another as smoothly and with as clear a purpose as a set of well-meshed gears.

My dick is a macho shithead but the rest of me is a sensitive, caring and gentle guy.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day—that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.

The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate in the soul of man. And the human intellect, with no inkling of the immense variety and complexity of circumstances conditioning a phenomenon, any one of which may be separately conceived of as the cause of it, snatches at the first and most easily understood approximation, and says here is the cause.