Quotes About Complexity

He would often say the exact opposite of what he had said on a previous occasion, yet both would be right.

It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.

A man knits and knits, and then entangles himself.

While Heisenberg had described the tusks and Schrodinger the trunk, the total elephant is so much more than its parts.

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

If a system is chaotic (most are), then it implies that however good the resolving power may be, the time over which the system is predictable is limited. Perfect predictability is not achievable, simply because we are limited in our resolving power.

Una grande opera d'arte (così come un grande avvenimento) vive attraverso un'infinita varietà di punti di vista e a diversi e mutevoli livelli di comprensione: nel tempo, nello spazio, da un individuo ad un altro, nel mutare delle condizioni in cui lo stesso individuo vi si accosta. E può vivere anche, per così dire, nell'aria, senza che direttamente la si conosca.

Ma le cose, dentro di noi, sono sempre maledettamente complicate; e tanto più inganniamo noi stessi, o tentiamo, quanto più evidente e immediato si prospetta il disinganno.

Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Translation is the other side of a tapestry.

It's like squeezing tripe: nothing comes out,' he said, meaning the Colasberna brothers, their partners, the town in general and Sicily as a whole.

È sempre difficile che l'ovvio e il sensato entrino in un processo.

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

It was strange to think that so much humane painstaking care and exertion was being introduced into the business of hanging people; that the most insane deed on earth was being committed with such an air of simplicity and reasonableness.

There is a type of woman who, ever since my boyhood, has invariably attracted me.    She is the woman with the eyes of a sphinx, whom desire makes cruel and cruelty makes desirous.

Muchas de sus paradojas lógicas son hoy valoradas en gran manera por la Lógica más avanzada

For unfortunately, simplicity is a state which is mostly achieved only through great difficulty, or the complicity of others.

The shades of gender in her voice were intricate, like mine.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex.

Are you a guy or a girl? I've heard the question all my life. The answer is not so simple, since there are no pronouns in the English language as complex as I am, and I do not want to simplify myself in order to neatly fit one or the other.

Do not reduce me to an understanding. I am more than that.