Quotes About Complexity

No me atrevo a juzgarte. Se que cuando uno ve las cosas desde fuera, cuando uno no se siente complicado en ellas, es muy fácil proclamar que es lo malo y que es lo bueno. Pero cuando uno esta metido hasta el pescuezo en el problema (y yo he estado muchas veces así), las cosas cambian, la intensidad es otra, aparecen hondas convicciones, inevitables sacrificios y renunciamientos que pueden parecer inexplicables para el que solo observa.

Yo me enamoré de sus demonios, ella de mi oscuridad. Éramos el infierno perfecto

La sencillez es una de las virtudes más complicadas de este viejo mundo. Cuando uno es sencillo (en su habla, en sus actos, incluso en su poesía) corre el incómodo riesgo de ser tomado por tonto, por babieca.

Ya se que hay mujeres que son eso y nada más. Pero hay otras, la mayoría, que no son eso, y otras más, que aunque lo sean, son además otra cosa, un ser humano complicado, egocéntrico, extremadamente sensible

Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality

Tell me how you are." "I'm fine, Mother." "No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.

We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read.

how monstrous the people you loved could be.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.

The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more detail ad infinitum. The technical term is "infinite complexity." Fractals are the theological equivalent of what theologians call the incomprehensibility of God. Just when we think we have God figured out, we discover a new dimension of His kaleidoscopic personality.

We give people political labels, sexual labels, and religious labels. But in the process, we strip them of their individuality and complexity. Prejudice is pre-judging. It's assuming that bad stories end badly, but Jesus is in the business of turning bad beginnings into happily ever afters. ... God cannot give up on you. It's not in His nature. His goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. All you have to do is turn around. All you have to do is crash the party!

Maybe faith has less to do with gaining knowledge and more to do with causing wonder. Maybe a relationship with God doesn't simplify your lives. Maybe it complicates our lives in ways that they should be complicated.

To quote the philosopher Max Roser: "Three things are true at the same time. The world is much better; the world is awful; and the world can be much better." There is plenty of good work to do.

We're so shit at seeing the Macro, and ultimately it's those macro uncoupling dynamics that matter more than anything else.

These are all problems in non-equilibrium physics, the physics of complex systems, or, to coin a new term historical physics. If the laws of physics are ultimately simple, why is the world so complex? Why don't eco-systems and economies reveal the same simplicity as Newton's laws? The answer, in a word, is history.

When understood in all its rich complexity, religion does not simply provide secure foundations but destabilizes every type of religiosity by subverting the oppositional logic of eitherjor.

it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

extremely difficult for the average person to visualize a space of more than three dimensions, since that is the only spatial geometry with which we have had any personal experience.

Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.

This 'gargantuan multidimensional clusterfuck.

We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?