Quotes About Complexity

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them.

Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties.

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

The amount of subtle and beautiful physics that's necessary to make a smartphone work is enormous.

We have a lot of heroes. We have Asian heroes, we have Asian American heroes, men, women, of all ages, and not all of them do martial arts. But that doesn't mean that they don't have their own arcs, their own stories, their own subtleties and nuances. And I think that's what's important.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.