Quotes About Complexity

He had never really mastered English, but he'd studied enough to have a healthy fear of its random severity, the senseless brutality of its conjugations; it was unpredictable, like a cross-bred dog.

Discovering everyone has a hidden story, a reason for their behavior.

But that's what love does to you. Gut-wrenching, overpowering, crushing, fulfilling, complex, bring-you-to-your-knees love.

Eccentricities, of which I know I have many, do not hold universal sexual and romantic lure. I understand that.

This is all sorts of fucked up." "I know, baby. I know. But the best kind of fucked up.

Everything is violently perfect! Why would you ask? Violently perfect? That's an odd word choice...

There is so much gray between the black and the white and this is where most of us live, trying, but so often failing, to bend towards the light.

What does a word mean? And a life? In the end, it seems to me, the same thing. Just as a word can have many dimensions, many nuances, great complexity, so, too, can a person, a life. Language is the mirror, the principal metaphor. Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person, is boundless, ineffable.

The better I understand the language, the more confusing it is.

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.