Quotes About Complexity

Pues eso no se sabe nunca –dijo el genio Vargas Llosa–. La amistad, como todo, es tan relativa, ¿no?

Uno es un grupo de contradicciones, intelectuales y emotivas. Solamente tú no eres una contradicción: siempre te quiero

A veces te aborrezco tanto, casi tanto como te quiero.

Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.

Mariah says, "I have Indian blood in me," and underneath everything I could swear she says it as if she were announcing her possession of a trophy. How do you get to be the sort of victor who can claim to be the vanquished also?

I look at this place (Antigua), I look at these people (Antiguans), and I cannot tell whether I was brought up by, and so come from, children, eternal innocents, or artists who have not yet found eminence in a world too stupid to understand, or lunatics who have made their own lunatic asylum, or an exquisite combination of all three.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

Man's mind is nothing more than "Grey Matter." Yet to the greatest scientist, it is the most complex challenge in the world of science ."

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The societies that human beings live in are so large and complex that peace and order require the invention of moral codes, and of government and political power too.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations [Article : "In the Details . . . What?"]

She neither understood him nor believed him but she realized, with puzzlement, that now the man was being nice, though she did not even want him to be nice to her mother, she did not want him to be anything, to anybody, anywhere.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Human life when rightly lived is simple ... but it is not rightly lived while it is bound to a complexity of lusts, desires, and wants -- these are not the real life but the burning fever and painful disease which originate in an unenlightened condition of mind.

John is a bad boy, but a good man.

History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which are about to crystallize. The more detailed and differentiated the description for any field of thought, the more complex, interrelated, and mutually dependent in definition will be its concepts. They become a tangle impossible to unravel logically, an organic structure produced by mutual development and with interacting components.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

La humanidad es pesada

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

Proprio non so come dirlo in modo che suoni veritiero: di verità ne esistono sempre come minimo due.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Rooted ways embolden us to remember that with our complex minds we can feel—and live—more than one thing simultaneously. Anxiety, difficulty, fear, despair. Yes. Beauty, connectedness, possibility, love. Yes.