Quotes About Complexity

Your light blacker than black. I know you.

He was not a dark man, but not light either. His color was a nebulous thing, so like his voice, which was too low to be weak but too reedy to be commanding. In a town that preferred things black or white, grayness such as his was not welcome.

It was just one of the many absurdities she discovered being married to Alexander Cameron: having everything she had ever wanted yet having nothing at all.

Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see.

But simple is far from easy.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

No es lo mismo ser racista en blanco y negro —un inglés en la India, un belga en el Congo— que ser racista con tal despliegue de matices; se necesita mucha más atención, más mala leche, más interés en el asunto.

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

That was the funny thing about my feelings for Ben - in most ways, they had nothing to do with Daniel. My feelings for them seemed like two entirely separate but necessary chambers of my heart.

Minds differ still more than faces.

So is this good or bad or what?" "It's 'or what

I'm tired of entirely new things," Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

But they were humans—who knows why they did anything?

Lots of shifting diagrams and numbers that might as well have been abstract art as far as I was concerned.

I had a complex emotional reaction. A whole new burst of neural connections blossomed. Oh right, I often have complex emotional reactions which I can't easily interpret.

This is why I'm glad I'm not human. They come up with stuff like this. I said, "No. That's a human thing to do. Constructs aren't that stupid.

It was obvious Station Security was out of its collective depth here. (At least it was obvious to me.)

What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire. Not

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire.

Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?

For diagrams comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places.