Quotes About Complexity

I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.

I smoke and I drink and every time I blink I have a tiny dream but as bad as I am I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

It's a guy thing really means There's no rational thought pattern connected with it and you can't make it logical.

When someone says 'Id explain but its complicated.' I'm not offended they think so little of me, I'm offended they think so much of themselves.

I want to be happy and sad at the same time. Yeah, I know it sounds sappy.

As the post said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel

There are always two sides to every story.

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.

All too often, we sanitize and simplify forgiveness, when in fact it's an arduous, exhausting task---messy, risky, and unpredictable.

In a world where everyone wants black-and-white answers, Coyote finger paints in Technicolor.

Como decía Albert Einstein, «ningún problema importante puede ser resuelto desde el mismo nivel de pensamiento que lo generó».

big fancy things, even things with minds, out of processes which are individually stupid, mindless, simple. Just a whole lot of little mindless events occurring over billions of years can create not just order, but design, not just design, but minds, eyes and brains.

Como en casi todos los temas que me apasionan, no tengo nada particular que decir.

El 10 de abril: <> Bueno, ¿y qué era? Todavía no lo sé. Me atraían sus ojos, su voz, su cintura, su boca, sus manos, su risa, su cansancio, su timidez, su llanto, su franqueza, su pena, su confianza, su ternura, su sueño, su paso, sus suspiros. Pero ninguno de estos rasgos bastaba para atraerme compulsiva, totalmente. Cada atractivo se apoyaba en otro. Ella me atraía como un todo, como una suma insustituible de atractivos, acaso sustituibles.

No sé si soy una persona triste con vocación de alegre, o viceversa, o al revés. Lo que sí sé es que siempre hay algo de tristeza en mis momentos más felices, al igual que siempre hay un poco de alegría en mis peores días.

Cada cuerpo tiene su armonía y su desarmonía. En algunos casos la suma de armonías puede ser casi empalagosa. En otros el conjunto de desarmonías produce algo mejor que la belleza.

Porque yo tengo todo el cuadro mental y moral del suicida, menos la fuerza que se precisa para meterse un tiro en la sien. Tal vez el secreto resida en que mi cerebro tiene algunas necesidades propias del corazón, y mi corazón algunas exquisiteces propias del cerebro