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Quotes About Complexity

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.
~ Eugene Jarecki
I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.
~ Ti West
We can't against human stupidity. Because they are too many and too dangerous.
~ Unknown
A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!
~ Unknown
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
~ Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
There is no such complicated situation which people could not make more complicated.
~ Eraldo Banovac
I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
~ Tamsin Greig
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.
~ Yogi Berra
Fully secure systems don't exist today and they won't exist in the future.
~ Unknown
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
~ Michael Palin
Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.
~ John P. Kotter
Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.
~ Yogi Berra
We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.
~ Charlie Munger
I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
~ Niels Bohr
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
~ Gregory Bateson
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
~ Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
~ G. M. Trevelyan
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
~ Karl Lehmann