Quotes About Complexity

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.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

Yo la amaba, e incluso amándola al revés, no llegaba a detestarla.

El corazón de aquella chica invisible era un puto cubo de Rubik! Por más que lo hacía girar en todos los sentidos, no llegaba a juntar los cuadritos del mismo color en la cara correcta.

Most of the time, it is not imbeciles or bigots who do the most stupid things. Some of the most problematic things are done by some of the smartest people.

We think that most apparently knowledge-intensive organisations can be pretty stupid.

And a thought occurs to him: Maybe you can't really know anyone just by looking at their face.

To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

Be a mystery, not a demographic. Be someone a computer could never quite know.

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

Life is so infinitely hard. It involves a thousand tasks all at once. And I am a thousand different people, all fleeing away from the centre.

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.

Be the complex elegance of a melting candle. Be a map with 10,000 roads. Be the orange at sunset that outclasses the pink of sunrise. Be the self that dares to be true.

We are all potential depressives, but that is never going to be all we are.

T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none.

To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.

I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad. I was both on the right and wrong side of history.

You are not the most intelligent creature in the universe. You are not even the most intelligent creature on your planet. The tonal language in the song of a humpback whale displays more complexity than the entire works of Shakespeare. It is not a competition. Well, it is. But don't worry about it.

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

Walt Whitman was right about at least one thing. You will contradict yourself. You are large. You contain multitudes.