Quotes About Complexity

You need to build in human effort for the edge cases, or they won't get done.

Human expertise is too complex to be represented in a simple binary system

On harvinaisempaa kuin uskoisikaan, että mies menee naimisiin Toisen naisen kanssa - edes vaimon kuoltua. Jos avioliitto on ollut hyvä, mies yhdistää Toisen naisen syyllisyydentunteisiinsa. Jos avioliitto on ollut huono, hän yhdistää Toisen naisen onnettomuuteensa. Ja ennen kaikkea - mieshän on tottunut ajattelemaan Toista naista jonkinlaisena täydentäjänä. Mieluummin hän nai jonkun, joka ei ole koskaan ollut mikään täydentäjä.

Racism is definitely in the eye of the beholder. White people have at hand the privilege of choosing whether to see or not see the racism that takes place around them. If Dr. Fitzgerald could not 'fathom' my reality as a black person, how would he be able to assess or address the rage, the fear and the host of other complex emotions that go hand-in-hand with being black in a racist society? For whatever reasons, seeing a black therapist had never crossed my mind, until then.

As mulheres, em instante, ficaram tema. Mulheres é bom quando não há amor, disse. Porque o amor é esquivadiço. A gente lhe monta casa, ele nasce no quintal. Vale a pena uma puta, miúdo. Gastamos o bolso, não o peito.

As mulheres são muito extensas, a gente viaja-lhes, a gente sempre se perde.

I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature?

Passing a healthcare replacement bill is a lot like trying to put socks on a rooster

refine your ability to "connect the dots" among seemingly disparate pieces of information. Threats do not come to us in neat little packages.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

And I was reminded of something I learned from another mentor, my first boss after I graduated, Massimo Vignelli, who once described the difference between complication and complexity. A love affair that's complex is wonderful, he said, but a love affair thats complicated is a disaster.

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.

You can be a homicidal madman and hilarious at the same time, you know

As the amount of code in a project grows, it gradually surpasses understanding. The amount of time it takes to figure out what to change just keeps increasing.

The most subtle bugs that we can inject are bugs related to inheritance.

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational.

coping with increasing issue breadth and complexity requires leaders to rethink how and what they delegate each time they get promoted.

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have to be satisfied to get it going.

Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn't include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention. "Continuous improvement for its own sake is a waste of time. "Life is what a business is about, and life is what this work is about. Coming to grips with oneself, in the face of an incredibly complex world that can teach us if we're open to learn.