Quotes About Complexity

What you want when you have a hard on for a girl, is rarely what you want when you pull out.

unreadable. "I've always said my mother is the biggest bitch on the hill, and the kindest flower in the garden.

The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

While you may be able to say with precision what the average man will do, "you can never foretell what any one man will do.

Kay," I whispered, and I wondered why sometimes the people you wish you could understand the most are the ones you can't understand at all.

Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats.

Gus and I talk about girls a lot, but we can't figure them out. They are so confusing. Like, if you look at them, they get mad. And if you don't look at them, they get mad. And if you're nice to them, they think you like them. And if you're mean to them, they think you like them. And if you do like them, they think you hate them.

Even Cheetah said, "I don't want to like her, but sometimes I think I do. Wait! Did I just say that?

Our mothers and fathers can be the most familiar people in the world and total strangers; they have a dark side, like the moon, that's invisible to us as long as we remain locked in the fixed orbit of the parent-child bond.

It's important to live a complicated life.

Crossword puzzles are designed to be solved, while codes and ciphers are designed to prevent solution. With codes, you have to be prepared to work for months—for years—and fail.

So begins the exhausting analysis of the cavalcade of unknowable smiles and cryptic sentences uttered by someone your newly interested in. When everything boils down to a succession of enigmatic moments. Moments played and replayed from the perspective you attribute to your lover-to-be, but that are actually from the part of you that's sure you're far too flawed to be loved.

A good barbecue sauce should be as complex as the bouquet of a fine wine. It should have notes of sweetness, acidity, and a hint of pepperiness.

You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down your chin. Likewise, the language of Dickens makes your mouth do strange things, and when you're not used to his words your jaw will creak.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

It's hard to build large-scale, general-purpose quantum computers. I hope that we can cross that hurdle soon and build general-purpose quantum computers with hundreds or thousands of quantum bits. But the most important hurdle is in our own understanding. Unless we can understand how the world processes information at a quantum level, we will remain in the dark.

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic laws of physics are comparatively simple in form, they give rise, because they are computationally universal, to systems of enormous complexity.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Sex is a queer and incalculable solvent of human confidence.

Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.

Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.

I came to the conclusion that it was impossible to classify anyone in Iran, and herein lay its fascination.