Quotes About Complexity

Today's "fully developed scene," consequently, tends to run shorter than it once did. You may encounter scene situations where you simply can't develop all the complex immediate issues in fewer than a dozen pages. If so, that's fine. But I suspect that the average, "developed" print-fiction scene today runs between four and six pages, and some are shorter than that.

Physicist Eric Weinstein calls these "long-short positions," alluding to investment strategies with multiple parts which when considered individually appear to be going in different directions, but in fact, are operating on the same thesis. When people engage in long-short thinking, zealots react with rage and try to box you into one position or the other. It's as if they can't handle the issue's complexity and instead respond with emotional outbursts.

It is in that visionary Madness of the Mind that permits a Madman to perceive Truth in extremis, when all else had seemed lost. Mercifull, indeed, is this worldly Existence, and cruel; and beautifull; and vile, and filled with Pain and greater in its Scale, and in its Depth, and its Complexity than mere Men can ever hope to understand; and profound wonderfull in its Capacity.

Wanting Kate was one thing. Sex was simple. Or it could be. But liking her? Enjoying spending time with her? Allowing her into his private life, as Brody had tonight, albeit at his sisters' invitation? It would lead to nothing but trouble.

Nothing was ever easy or simple, not one blasted thing.

La dualidad esta dentro de nosotros todos estamos compuestos de absolutamente si y absolutamente no, de norte y sur, oscuridad y luz, todos somos héroes y todo lo contrario, podemos volar y caer.

La estructura del Cerebro en su conjunto es una macro distorsión compleja de la Lattice y su actividad distorsiona a la misma Lattice que le da origen.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

I'm not really interested in the black and white, the 'goodies and baddies.' I find the complexity of the gray areas more compelling, more intriguing. As I have said before, there are angels and demons in all of us, and I am interested in the relationship between the two within the 'ordinary' person.

I swallowed at once envying and adoring all the ways in which the word lovely could refer to my mother. So strange still, how different we were.

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

The computer is an enigma. Not in its making or its usage, but because man appears incapable of foreseeing anything about the computer's influence on society and humanity. We have most likely never dealt with such an ambiguous apparatus, an instrument that seems to contain the best and the worst, and, above all, a device whose true potentials we are unable to scrutinize.

Man goes round in circles because the structure, the structure of man, is toric

Çünkü gerçeÄŸin ay?rt edici özelliÄŸi hayal edilemez olmas?d?r. (...) EÄŸer gerçek diye bir kavram varsa, son derece komplekstir ve bir bütün oluÅŸturacak ÅŸekilde kavranmas? imkans?zd?r.

I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you.

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

Renunciar a la ilusión que ve en el alma una sustancia inmaterial, no es negar su existencia, sino al contrario comenzar a reconocer la complejidad, la riqueza, la insondable profundidad de la herencia genética y cultural, así como de la experiencia personal, consciente o no, que en conjunto constituyen el ser que somos, único e irrecusable testigo de sí mismo.

all that a world could be, no matter what, is, somewhere, in some way. fullness of possibles, consistency. no matter which talking head, mine for example, adjacent to my body and why not against my face, the angel's, the black shadow face itself, but all the seats are taken, all the worlds unavailable to you.

Why do we refer to the mind as a circus? A circus is not a mess; a circus is a very coordinated activity deliberately made to look like a mess. On one level it is a mess, but on another, it is a highly coordinated activity.

Yo quiero ser un escritor y sexualmente soy un híbrido raro.