Quotes About Complexity

First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects!

Architectural refactoring is hard, and we're still ignorant of its full costs, but it isn't impossible. Here the best

in interaction diagrams], comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

It is a fortunate and astonishing fact that the fundamental laws of our fantastic fidgety universe are based on relatively simple equations. If it were otherwise, we surely would know less than we know now about how our universe behaves, and Newton and Leibniz would probably never have invented (or discovered?) calculus.

Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.

When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.

Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water.

IN HIS BOOK THE FUTURE OF LIFE, E.O. Wilson sets the scene with an image that highlights the complex fragility of "Spaceship Earth": "The totality of life, known as the biosphere to scientists and creation to the theologians, is a membrane of organisms wrapped around Earth so thin it cannot be seen edgewise from a space shuttle, yet so internally complex that most species composing it remain undiscovered.

Complex biospheres like the Earth's could be rare because of some bottleneck, some key stage in evolution, that is hard to transit. Perhaps it is the transition to multicellular life. (The fact that simple life on Earth seems to have emerged quite quickly, whereas even the most basic multicellular organisms took nearly three billion years, suggests that there may be severe barriers to the emergence of any complex life.)

So our dream was to combine the feeling and the emotional rock potential of The Who and even Zeppelin and bring the complexity of a band like Genesis and Yes. "And we wanted to do that in a three-piece format. We wanted to be the world's most complicated three-piece band.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

J.K. Rowling's and Terry Pratchett's. He liked to lose himself in fantasies where people always solved their problems, made sure that right was done and evil cast aside. If only life was that simple.

The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC

Not on the inside. On the inside, Gloria, you're a kaleidoscope of pink and purple.

We live in a complex world. There are many forces calling out, 'Love me.' A sure way to set our guidelines for that which we choose to serve and learn to love is to follow the admonition of Joshua: 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Love is not singular except in syllable.

Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.

The perfect diamond has many facets. It's almost never that the same hand cuts them all.

Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.

The more complex the strategy, the less truth there is in it.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.