Quotes About Complexity

It is the ultimate expressive medium, Lick later wrote—"the moldable, retentive, yet dynamic medium—the medium within which one can create and preserve the most complex and subtle patterns and through which [one] can make those patterns operate (as programs) upon other patterns (data).

The royal road to a Nobel Prize has generally been through the reductionist approach,

When the systems are truly complex, in short, programming has to be a process of exploration and discovery. That had been the whole point of interactive languages such as Lisp, as well as interactive-design tools such as Sketchpad: they made it easy to explore new solutions by making it easy to formulate and then reformulate ideas on the fly.

When the systems are truly complex, in short, programming has to be a process of exploration and discovery. That had been the whole point of interactive languages such as Lisp, as well as interactive-design tools such as Sketchpad: they made it easy to explore new solutions by making it easy to formulate and then reformulate ideas on the fly. And that was the whole point of Lick's Dynamic Modeling project: he wanted to push exploratory programming as far as he could in every direction.

Prigogine's principle

M. Mitchell Waldrop

had found a decent name for the thing—a process that had proved to be surprisingly tricky.

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

When looking at nature, you must always consider the detail and the whole.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Coxeter also wrote a long mathematical explanation in his letter, which was beyond Escher's comprehension, as he remarked in a letter to George and Corrie. Baarn, 28 May 1960: 'I had an enthusiastic letter from Coexter about my coloured fish, which I sent him. Three pages of explanation of what I actually did... It's a pity that I understand nothing, absolutely nothing of it...

Love is terrible sometimes, isn't it?" "People are terrible," River said. "Everything else is an excuse.

It's like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

Mas eu só queria saber neste mundo misturado quem concorda consigo mesmo! Somos misturas incompletas, assustadoras incoerências, metades, três-quartos e quando muito nove-décimos.

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.

Even those who enter public life with the best of intentions are susceptible to its pull. We ought, therefore, to be mindful of our own bad habit—which is to look for and expect easy answers when the most serious problems we face are anything but.

People are more than just the way they look.

Don't ever try to be only a single thing, an unbroken human being. If so many people love you, can you honestly be one thing?

Parents who have more than one child are very aware that, while we certainly have an impact on our child's development, it has as much to do with them as with us. "I can't believe how different my kids are" should inform us that child development is an uneven process only partly tied to parenting (and no one knows exactly how much that "partly" is).

Rebecca is asserting her independence. Her thinking is simple and egocentric: "I can" or "I can't"; "I will" or "I won't." Independence is about managing one's self. Autonomy is a much broader, tougher, and more complex task than independence. It weaves together advanced thinking, self-reliance, self-regulation, intimacy, and connection. Autonomy is the capacity to be both independent and connected to others.

I did not see the worst of him. Even at his best he was not an easy man. But he was a friend to me in a time when I needed one.

The more one tries to analyze oneself the more one is conscious of amazing paradoxes and inconsistencies which lurk under the simplest surface.

Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it -Barrow's Uncertainty Principle