Quotes About Complexity

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

His eyes were a lot older than fifteen." Persephone Hadley(,regarding Callum McGregor)

And in a world desperate to pigeon-hole and categorize and stereotype, she may feel forced to come down on one side or the other. And the truth is, she's both. And the truth is, she's neither.

I hate the word 'simple'. Nobody has any business to live in the world and know nothing about its ways.

la ragione e il torto non si dividon mai con un taglio cosí netto, che ogni parte abbia soltanto dell'una o dell'altro.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Witness the diversity of an unpredictable self that seems to repeat and reproduce itself exactly but that can also take me by surprise, outstrip and escape me.

Understanding,' in all honesty, is a word pregnant with difficulties, but also with hope.

all souls cannot be the same, that it is necessary there be different types in order to honor [20]each of God's perfections in a particular way.

Why do girls always fall madly in love with men who only make them suffer, while they barely bat an eye at the ones who would move mountains for them?

El amor es a la vez algo triste y maravilloso.

Why aren't you together anymore?" "Because we were never really together to begin with. It's a long story.

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed.

So vast, indeed, that it eventually proved impossible to administer from a single centre,

Generalisations about 'the Anglo-Saxons' are consequently difficult,

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are.

Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.

To really know someone is to have love and hated him in turn.

Le coeur a ses prisons que l'intelligence n'ouvre pas. [in De la grandeur]

Not only does one not retain all at once the truly rare works, but even within such works it is the least precious parts that one perceives first. Less deceptive than life, these great masterpieces do not give us their best at the beginning.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.