Quotes About Complexity

He's annoying, he's hilarious, he's he makes me yell, he drives me crazy, he's out of his mind, and he's everything I want.

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it

She'd never felt more powerful. She wanted to do this again. In an hour. In the middle of the night. In the morning. She wanted to wake up like this, shaking and strong and whole and broken all at once.

Noses to the wind, we inhaled a farrago of scents: charcoal and jasmine, rotting fruit and eucalyptus, gasoline and ammonia, a swirling belch from the city's poorly irrigated gut.

I am a sleeper, a spy, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not a misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, though some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides.

We did our best to conjure up the culinary staples of our culture, but since we were dependent on Chinese markets our food had an unacceptably Chinese tinge, another blow in the gauntlet of our humiliation that left us with the sweet-and-sour taste of unreliable memories, just correct enough to evoke the past, just wrong enough to remind us that the past was forever gone, missing along with the proper variety, subtlety, and complexity of our universal solvent, fish sauce.

What makes us human is that we're the only creatures on this planet that can fuck ourselves

Don't you see that the Americans need the anti-American?

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese. "It's okay, but the problem with it is the other person involved. She has a mind of her own. You can't say the same thing about things.

Ah contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!

consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Nothing Emerson wrote was ever truer of America, but

Real talent was required to use so many words in two languages to say nothing.

It was Didion crossed with Chandler as prophesied by Faulkner and shot by Welles.

It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things.

The dynamics of [quadrotor robots] are quite complicated. In fact, they live in a 12-dimensional space.

good-bad,right-wrong,once you tag things like that,you lose the ability to see the complete truth.... A murderer can also be a loving father. Don't tag things. Words are insufficient to describe the picture in totality. Try not to get trapped in the dictionary meaning of words.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

Life is full of good times, but the ups and downs of life have made it so difficult to understand.

People are like pepper, you don't know them until you have ground them.

There are three things most men love but never understand; females, girls and women.

You can't understand hard things merely by doing hard work.

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart.

Soames was a beautiful and striking woman, tall and lithe and, from the photographs Ive seen of her, feline. Saul's photographs of her over the years catch her in all her complex dimensions: playful, erotic, contemplative, ironic, and eccentric by turns. She was by all accounts charismatic, and was profoundly curious and interested in people. Friends, both men and women, often confided their deepest secrets to her.