Quotes About Complexity

There are no shortcuts. Not to understanding and not to knowledge. You can't put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn't the same as any other stone,

Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand - hasn't Allie learned that well enough? There is a blow behind the blow.

However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that. There are no shortcuts. Not to understanding and not to knowledge. You can't put anyone into a box.

You can't put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn't the same as any other stone, so I don't know where you all think you get off labeling humans with simple words and thinking you know everything you need.

However complex you think it is, it is more complex than that.

There's never been a right choice, honeybun. The whole idea that there are two things and you have to choose is the problem.

In this place—one can never see from one end of a street to the other, let alone men's hearts.

Good and evil." I chuckle under my breath. "Such binary thinking. So simplistic. So boring. Everything is shades of gray, Emery. There is no such thing as good people or evil people. There are simply people. And some of us are willing to do whatever it takes to get what we want. I don't think you're one of them. Do you understand what I'm telling you?

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They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

Wszystko, co z?o?one, skazane jest na rozpad.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard study will alone enable me to discover how it plainly appears.

Complex ideas must be made simple, or they'll remain ideas and never be put into action.

Shigure: "That's lovely. She's so... how shall I say it? By putting it into words I'm afraid the nobility of it all would only be obscured." Yuki: "Of what?" Shigure: "You know, she's so spunky!" Kyo: "You sick bastard!

It's just...understanding something and actually acting on it are two different things. We humans have a habit of taking something simple... and making it hard. It's annoying, I know.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.

Sich mit diesem oder jenem zu identifizieren, ist also ein normaler Vorgang. Gefährlich wird es, sobald eine einzige Identität bestimmend wird, sobald man nur noch Muslim ist oder Christ oder Deutscher, Iraner oder meinetwegen Anhänger eines bestimmten Fußballclubs oder eines Popstars. Dann wird aus der pragmatischen Einschränkung, die jede Art von Identifizierung bedeutet, eine reale Verstümmelung der Persönlichkeit.

The more miraculous a technology is, the more prone it is to catastrophic breakdown.

The Internal Revenue Code cannot simply be "fixed," which is amply demonstrated by more than 35 years of attempted tax code reform, each round resulting in yet more complexity and unrelenting, page-after-page, mind-numbing verbiage (now exceeding 54,000 pages containing more than 2.8 million words).

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.