Quotes About Complexity

I know the Blue Rose Task Force is charged with the investigation of matters that would make most average citizens—or the world's most expert neurophysicists, for that matter—flee from the room with their hair spontaneously combusting.

Lou, are you aware that the boot sequence required to produce an orgasm in a full-grown American female is more complex than the ignition sequence of a neutron bomb?

Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

I find people confusing.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

We take a beautiful little boy and we put him in a diaper and we give him a lethal weapon and we say LOVE. Which makes absolutely no sense.

The technology never reverses itself. It creates new technology to confront new sets of problems.

Our very human to simplify and seek one answer may explain our ongoing difficulty in recognizing impending synergy and acting before systems collapse. We are prone to accept death by a thousand little cuts, in which one degraded aspect of our environment or health becomes familiar and accepted as normal--and then another.

The orca's big brain was bigger than he had hoped—five times the size of a human's and weighing in at nearly fifteen pounds. And this was from a young whale, not a mature adult. The brain was also more complicated than McGeer had imagined—more complicated than a human brain. Dolphin brains were impressive, but this brain was spectacular.

Python's super is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you're going to get!

that's why we need recursion here: the number of nested loops is arbitrary, and depends on the length of the sequence permuted:

As usual in programming, if something is difficult for you to understand, it's probably not a good idea.

All of us are walking contradictions made of mismatched parts and anomalies.

The brutality of the world lay beyond my understanding.

Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

It is beyond my apprehension.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

There's a lot more to me than just funny.