Quotes About Complexity

I totally believe parents should talk to their kids about drugs. I totally believe that educating them in every way is really important. But on the other hand, I've learned it's not as simple as that.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

Science does not emerge in some perfect, complete crystalline form.

The problem for me, with most movies for children, is that the filmmakers make the mistake of making it too simplistic. Where a child's world can be very complex, emotionally.

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

With this new sense of moving forward, from simple to complex life forms, from bacteria to humans, science shows that evolution is more than a method of collecting and classifying the facts of life; rather it is the means by which humanity can move forward into the future.

Technology is a new evolutionary means of convergence; it is accelerating evolution by causing humankind to concentrate upon itself through complex levels of information.

The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex.

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

Entropy is the price of structure.

The main character of any living system is openness.

Order arise from chaos.

The understanding of complexity and the use of the creativity of nature, the continuation of the work of nature are the grand challenges for the scientists of the 21st century.

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter its description.