Quotes About Complexity

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

My work is never just fashion, landscape, or portraiture; it's always kind of an odd mixture of everything. I like muddling it together.

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.