Quotes About Complexity

Je veux que le lecteur comprenne bien ce qui était en jeu pour moi à ce moment-là. Les guerres d'insurrection et de contre-insurrection sont extrêmement vicieuses puisqu'elles impliquent personnellement tous les hommes, militaires ou civils, des deux camps, qui se trouvent être dans le théâtre d'opérations. Personne ne peut se permettre de rester neutre et de regarder les événements en spectateur. Alors

Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.

Because love cannot be discussed objectively.

Politics is people-and people aren't logical. I prefer logic. It's simpler.

It suddenly struck me-this was HARLIE showing off what he could do, his way of impressing everybody, his way of convincing people that he could handle complex problems that required a lot of fast processing.

In real life there is not, as there is in every jigsaw puzzle, one picture and one picture only, into which all the pieces will eventually fit," he wrote. "It is the totalitarian mind which thinks that there is one and only one picture.

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.

When your main objective is to be a good kid, Catholicism makes everything extremely complicated

As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…

More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less

that was the thing about nature: make one lousy rule to describe it and it'll contradict you even if it has to transmogrify and metamorphosize and bust its ass to do it. and so what? if anybody grew wise enough to grasp the real immutable laws of nature, nature'd only rear back and strike 'em dead before they got anybody to understand them

But any gathering of eight human beings has an astounding potential for complication.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

Wishing the best for you, knowing it was the worst of me.

No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough