Quotes About Complexity

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

There is no simple answer to what I think.

We don't think there are simple answers about that why someone is the way they are.

All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.

I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket.

As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.

As an audience member myself, I love to be in a position where I'm trying to figure out what I am supposed to feel or if what I'm feeling is appropriate or not.

Amit a moralisták az emberi szív mélységeinek neveznek, voltaképpen csalóka gondolatok, az egyéni érdek önkéntelen rezdülései. Ezek a lelki bonyodalmak, amelyekr?l annyi üres szó esik, ezek a hirtelen pálfordulások, nem egyebek élvezeteink javára végzett számításoknál.

Peki ama beni kimi vakit mutlulu?un göbe?inde yakalay?veren o uzun uzun hulyalara dalmalardan ku?kulanmak niye? Bir konu üzerinde benim susu?umdan dolay? senin pek sevimli, sevilen kad?n öfken niye? Yarad?l???mdaki z?tl?klarla, nedenlerini sormadan, oynayamaz m?yd?n? Kalbinde birtak?m s?rlar m? var ki, kendilerini kapatmak için benim s?rlar?ma ihtiyaç duyuyorlar?

la plus inquiète, la plus rapide, la plus jalouse, la plus ardente, la plus violente, la plus simple, la plus é

the truth can be both horrible and lovely at the same time.

It's about more than just being beautiful. It's about having all of these uncomfortable feelings inside you and not knowing how to express them or deal with them.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)

I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear?

An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction

The five elements of the complex adaptive system are conformity enforcers, diversity generators, inner-judges, resource shifters, and intergroup tournaments.

one of the first assemblies of smart molecules had been the crew of that ingenious unit called the gene.† An even grander molecular fusion had been the chromosome—a knottily twisted rope of genes which not only worked together,* but fused so tightly that they formed a massive mega-molecule.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

Judaism is not, and never has been, a single stream of thought, but a river formed of many, often contradictory, streams, and rabbinic texts are composites of different kinds of thinking.

Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.