Quotes About Complexity

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Making a shape out of mess, as Jack put it; the instinct in us all, something deeply human and fearful. Glancing

psychologist David Premack refers to as the "Russian-novel problem"—that is, when looking at the history of two animals (or humans), it is often hard to know what caused what, since the two may have interacted in so many ways over such a long time, and they may also remember events differently and act according to this subjective experience.

Military Intelligence' is an oxymoron, just like 'Government Organisation' is. A bloody game with no rules.

The manoeuvre was difficult at the best of times. In the dark, it was almost impossible.

Falling for someone romantically is more complex. Many of the old classic languages refer to three different types of love or affection. Roughly translated, they include general, brotherly and sexual love. When all three are present, a relationship is indeed rich.

The experiment suggested a strong correlation "between the number of links and disorientation or cognitive overload," wrote Zhu.

Automation weakens the bond between tool and user not because computer-controlled systems are complex but because they ask so little of us.

The genius of our brain's construction is not that it contains a lot of hardwiring but that it doesn't.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

A text always remains in crucial ways 'imperceptible'.

Even the most apparently simple statement is subject to fission or fissure.

We're none of us, are we, just one thing? I am a policeman, but also a father, a husband for the time being, a nursemaid to a sister who I pray will survive her illness. You are a journalist, a writer, and I don't know what else besides. To look at a person from a single angle is to deform them. Even if Yolanda is guilty...she is also afraid of the dark. And I cannot forget that I put her there.

He was neither good looking nor ugly, and while he would not have turned a young girl's head, someone older might have been struck by his face and the evidence of passion which had left its traces. ~p17

But I never did manage to tell you because I could never quite put the words together to express something so complex and sordid and exciting and stupid,. I still wonder how that conversation might have gone.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

One ascends into profundity, but profundity is nothing but a complication of the shallows, and 'one' is nowhere.

Nothing is more complex than simplification; what art takes from enigma it more than replenishes in the instantiation of itself, in the labyrinthine puzzle it plants in history. The intensification of enigma. The luxuriantly problematic loam of existence is built out of the sedimented aeons of residues deposited by the will to power, the impulse to create.

One begins to wonder if all the most interesting problems in physics are now in biology.

Occam's razor, the philosophical basis of all science: assume the simplest natural cause. That answer might turn out not to be correct, but we should not resort to more complex reasoning unless it is shown to be necessary.

To be fair, what looks like conspiracy often turns out to be bureaucracy.

the neuro- in neurodiversity is most usefully understood as referring not just to the brain but to the entire nervous system–and, by extension, to the full complexity of human cognition and the central role the nervous system plays in the embodied dance of consciousness"(Walke2021, p. 55).