Quotes About Complexity

Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. ? René Descartes

I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

But long sentences often tend to collapse or break down or become opaque or trip over their awkwardness.

There are no straight lines in nature or business.

Don't think that you must involve yourself with complex intellectual philosophies. Don't try to be profound or educated. That only wears you out. Just be simple. Let everyday life be your teacher.

So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know

He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.

Hexapodia as the key insight

Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.

Whenever people are particularly muddled in their thinking they invent big words to cover their confusion.

A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.