Quotes About Complexity

The more a cipher deviates from the simple form in which one ciphertext letter invariably replaces the same plaintext letter, the harder it is to break.

The task of the cryptanalysts consisted primarily of reconstructing the wiring and switches of the coding wheels—a task made more burdensome by the daily change of plugboard connections.

This kind of work, particularly in the early stages of a difficult cryptanalysis, is perhaps the most excruciating, exasperating, agonizing mental process known to man.

I tell yeh, Bright-eyes. Men and women? A bloody mess. Every time.

If we frame every situation in terms of right and wrong, we never have to wrestle with complexity; if we define the world in narrow bands of black and white, we don't have to parse out endless shades of gray.

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time,

She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven.

Do you know what my rabbi says? That the mark of a man is his contradictions. We can long to be away and at home, both at the same time.

To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

Note that having a large brain is biologically costly: the brain is an expensive organ to run, and large ones consume many precious calories (the human brain accounts for a whopping 20 percent of our energy expenditure).

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin.

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

God is simple, everything else is complex

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!