Quotes About Complexity

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde

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Aku suka menyadari betapa kerasnya buku bertahan, tidak pernah mau takluk begitu saja padaku; aku jadi terpedaya, capai, tetapi aku amat menikmati ambiguitas posisiku: mengerti tetapi tidak mengerti.

But this richness was lost in confusion and finally was no more because it was too much.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.