Quotes About Complexity

Most of his pals did not understand how it was possible to have a friend who was a girl but not actually a girlfriend. Theo had grown weary of trying to explain this. It was complicated.

the proliferation of the federal criminal code, now at twenty-seven thousand pages and counting.

At times he thinks like a terrorist, then he cries like a little child. - Reggie Love

Catholicism is a deep matter. You cannot take it up in a teacup" [..] "You must consent to think.

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

De alguna manera -había argumentado Garp- la vida es demasiado. La vida es un folletín melodramático no apto para menores, John

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

Wizened and white, with brown blotched on her face the size and complexity of unshelled peanuts, Midge had a jitter in her head that made her pew like a chicken trying to make up its mind what to peck.

It was madness that had killed Jenny Fields, his mother. It was extremism. It was self-righteous, fanatical, and monstrous self-pity. Kenny Truckenmiller was only a special kind of moron: a true believer who was also a thug. He was a man who pitied himself so blindly that he could make absolute enemies out of people who contributed only the ideas to his undoing. And how was an Ellen Jamesian any different? Was not her gesture as desperate, and as empty of an understanding of human complexity?

I'm not an anti-feminist! Of course you're not, Garp told her. They make everything so black and white. Of course they do, said Garp. That's why I hate them. They force you to be like them - or else you're their enemy. Yes, yes, Garp said. I wish I could talk.

What a phrase that is: "that explains everything!" I know better than to think that anything "explains everything" today.

Franny was awful to him, but Franny was not awful; and Frank was not really awful to any of us, except he (himself) was, somehow, awful.

that was exactly what I thought Owen Meany was, "brilliant but preposterous." As time went on—as you shall see—maybe not so preposterous.

Unrevised, real life is just a mess.

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

Ha a demokrácia a világ leegyszer?sítése elleni állandó harcot jelenti, úgy a nacionalizmus állandó harc azért, hogy megsemmisítsék a sokrét?séget, olyan akarat, amely bizonyos dolgokról nem akar hallani, választott tudatlanság, nem az ártatlanságé.

I am profoundly enchanted by the flowing complexity in you.

Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written...

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

And in unraveling the complex we should always be careful not to overlook the obvious. John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society.

For just as no politics can be pure, so no "grand strategy" will remain unaffected by the unforeseen.

Complexity fully rendered would take too long and contain too much, thereby entangling judgment. Complexity as what you want or expect would only confirm what you think you know. You need something in between.

la simplicidad coexiste con la complejidad y puede guiarnos con éxito con ella.

Britons are 16 times more likely to understand the rules of Quidditch than the rules of croquet.