Quotes About Complexity

Good afternoon, Suzy Q. Are you ladies all right?" "Nobody's all right, Officer. Nobody's all wrong, nobody's all right. We all of us stuck in the middle." He

Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

Another lesson to emerge is that in a complex technological disaster, hardware by itself won't solve the problem. You need to think things through, to diagnose and analyze and interpret.

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

When we try to love we are not actually trying to undertake a single endeavor; rather, we are trying to do a whole range of different, and sometimes not very compatible, things simultaneously.

Lovat liked and detested London at the same time.

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.

Chaos is nothing but an infinite number of ordered things.

In my world, there are no simple questions, and precious few answers of any kind. If you are going to write about me, you must resign yourself to that.

But why at least? What a business it is, the human discourse. I

that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be more dismaying than delightful. E.g.: the maze of termite tunnels in your joist, the intricate cancer in her perfect breast, the psychopathology of everyday life, the Auschwitz in an anthill casually DDT'd by a child, the rage of atoms in a drop of ink - in short, anything examined curiously enough.

Plot is] the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium.

You mustn't be taken in by the moonlight and magnolias. There's more to Savannah than that. Things can get very murky.

Complex faith does not kill giants. It imprisons us in "wonder" land where we try to figure out what we cannot change and hesitate to make any move.

Maybe there were no villains in my mother's story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.

After several decades of empirical study, Jaques concluded that just as humans differ in intelligence, we differ in our ability to handle time-dependent complexity. We all have a natural time horizon we are comfortable with: what Jaques called "time span of discretion," or the length of the longest task an individual can successfully undertake.

We all start from radical ignorance in a world that is endlessly strange, vast, complex, intricate, and surprising. Deliverance from ignorance lies in good concepts—inference fountains that geyser out insights that organize and increase the scope of our understanding.

Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.

Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of it, and the rest of it is hidden under the water. When you look at successful leaders, you see only a fraction of their lives. You see the part that looks really good, but there's usually a lot that remains hidden that's neither exciting nor glamorous.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. —John C. Maxwell

Los líderes exitosos son como un iceberg. Cuando uno mira un iceberg, se ve sólo el 10% en la superficie, el resto está debajo del agua. Cuando usted mira a líderes exitosos, solamente mira una fracción de sus vidas. Usted ve la parte que realmente se ve bien, pero por lo general hay mucho que no se ve y que no es emocionante ni glamoroso.

Los educadores toman algo simple y lo vuelven complicado. Los comunicadores toman algo complicado y lo hacen simple. —John C. Maxwell

The process of thinking itself requires us to view the universe in the direction of entropy, since an abstraction always involves information loss, since symbols 'abstract' complexity from observed objects.

Suddenly, with a cynical frankness, he began comparing his feelings for these two girls. 'The truth is,' he said to himself, 'I love them both! I love Gerda because she's so simple, and because I've slept with her all these months ; and I love Christie because she's so subtle, and because I've never slept with her!