Quotes About Complexity

Doing nothing is not only a waste of energy—it often promotes decay and unnecessary complexity and stress.

Boy, that was an amorphous blob of undoability!

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. —Thomas Sowell

Look at the earth and you think it's solid, he said. But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A labyrinth.

M?s?iau, kaip sunku iš pirmo žvilgsnio pasakyti, apie k? žmon?s galvoja ir kokie jie pal?ž?.

He laughed, but he didn't smile.

The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy

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I've seen enough in this world to know that two people who can make each other that miserable must love each other a lot.

Every time I think I've got you figured out you throw me a curve. - Veronica Knox

Dostoyevsky wrote that 'while nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations.

Did you imagine that science was a disinterested pursuit of the truth? Well, you were wrong.

Division is thus seen to be a convenient means of giving a more articulated and detailed description to this whole, rather than a fragmentation of what is.

My brain hurt like a warehouse It had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the fat-skinny people And all the tall-short people And all the nobody people And all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people. - Five Years

It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evolution. Darwin explains nature! He has more difficulty explaining us.

Today you meet more folks than your ancestors could imagine Ã¢â'¬Â¦ some in passing. Some for a crucial instant. Others for tangled decades. Biology can't keep up. Our overworked temporal lobes cannot "know" the face-name-reps of ten billion people!

the towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.

There isn't one America anymore. If there ever had been.

Concepts that had eluded him because they could not be shaped with images and feelings alone, but needed the rich subtlety of abstract language to shape and anchor them with a webbery of symbols.

Unlike water, which prefers to lie flat as it accumulates, material wealth in complex societies likes to pile itself up into huge pyramids.