Quotes About Complexity

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people don't understand the science that goes behind making a film.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

You always admire what you really dont understand.

Behind this fake smile, is everything you'll never understand.

Every coin has two sides, just like most people have two faces.

Someone told me crying about something was immature. But they don't know what goes on in my life and how mature I'm actually being....