Quotes About Complexity

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Beneath every history, another history.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

My home is a little more complicated than coordinates on a map.

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

I hope they understand that I really understand That they don't understand

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.