Quotes About Complexity

There isn't and never has been one America, but rather several Americas.

There is no subterfuge in you, Miss Adeline. Why is that?" Color came and went in her cheeks. "Everyone has layers. Even me." He leaned closer as his son neared and allowed a curl to wrap his finger. "I look forward to peeling back those layers.

There is more to a soul than what others see

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

Astronism is not to be explained so easily as others for its vastness and complexity is a topic of study, not skimming.

From an atom to The Milky Way to The Cosmos itself, the perspectives of size is the greatest thought of immense confounding complexity.

I always take a sudden dislike to those who want everything simple and easy.

Never, should you, reveal all the dimensions of yourself.

Nothing is ever simple in this world and is unlikely to be so in any other for that matter.

One can never truly know a person's every thought and action and so a person can never truly be known.

Sadly, I know not clearly of the subject of physics. Instead, I learn of the complex human nature, the epic mind, The Grand Cosmos, and the unknownness beyond the edge of The Cosmos known as The Universe.

L'homme dit : « Je suis plus intelligent que l'océan. » C'est possible ; c'est même assez vrai ; mais l'océan lui est plus redoutable que lui à l'océan : c'est ce qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de prouver.

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

He would never understand women, he thought. They were life's great mystery.

Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.

Life is never a simple problem made of questions and one answer. There are always plenty answers.

You are my country, Desdemona." Yearning, harsh and poignant, and she felt herself swaying toward him. "My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

If all of this seems paradoxical, get used to it. Language is paradox.

There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous. ("New York Blues")

Service-based leadership is a mindset: you work for your people. It is not complex; often it's the small acts of service that have the greatest impact on morale and camaraderie.

Life is beautiful and horrible and wonderful and awful all at the same time

I've always been fascinated by famous people, but I'm more interested in the flaws and quirks that make them human than in their public image.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.