Quotes About Complexity

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

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.

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

There is always something Right in something that is Wrong and something Wrong in something that is Right.