Quotes About Complexity

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

People tend 2 choke that which they do not understand

there is a fundamental messiness to the nature of the good.

Hence, the energy for independent thoughts is additive except for a term log[B(n1,n2)], the log of a binomial coefficient. Since binomial coefficients are always bigger than (or equal to) one, it follows that energy is super-additive. Combining thoughts demand more and more mental power as the sizes increase: the MIND is limited in the complexity of thoughts.

Organs are supple and capable of adapting to different situations and domains. Finally, they are open to development, and this is precisely what "stable systems" (Case, 1992a, p. 5) are not. But organs are much more complex than such systems, and it is much more difficult to understand them.

Nicolis, G., & Prigogine, I. (1977). Self-organization in non-equilibrium systems: From dissipative structures to order through fluctuations. New York: Wiley.

Because psychologists generally take knowledge as unproblematic, the complexity of Piagetian theory seems simply superfluous.

Needs themselves are not static but become more complex with the differentiation and integration of sensorimotor schemes (OI, p. 170).

As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.

The heart of an empire is often beautiful to behold—and cruel to contemplate.

If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple we couldn't.

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

You're the one I love to love, hate to hate, love to hate and hate to love.

What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.

How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk? Can we think in a sophisticated manner without silent internal speech? And lastly, how did this extraordinarily complex, multicomponent system originally come into existence in our hominin ancestors?

Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?

Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face.

If I didn't like her so much, I'd hate her.

No, even though everyone had one set of hands and feet, there was more than one person inside--there were several, each pulling a different way, tearing you apart until they led you to your grave And yet we think that another's soul is impenetrable--as though we know our own at least a little.

We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored. —Barry Leiba, "Faulty Logic: False Dichotomy

There are no simple answers to complex problems.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.