Quotes About Complexity

Great cases like hard cases make bad law.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Yo no tengo una personalidad; yo soy un cocktail, un conglomerado, una manifestación de personalidades.

She decided he might be an easy acquaintance, but would not be easy to know.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

They were more a new set of ways of looking at the universe, supported by the math, than a set of complex mathematical formulas.

To an outsider, the chaos might appear overwhelming.

Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

There are no villains who doesn't have his reasons.

Women are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool center of their being. You have to represent something solid and loving. The anchor. Even if you are not. You can't tell them the truth. You have to lie and play games. I've never in my entire life been with someone with whom I didn't have to play a game. I've never been with anyone with whom I could be exactly who I am.

Because man's being is made of strange stuff....

As the early church boasted rightly, the message of Jesus is both simple enough for a child to paddle in and deep enough for an elephant to swim in.

Life is much more than reason, so it can never be captured and explained by reason alone—crucial and valuable though reason is. Apply reason as carefully and systematically as you like, and there will always be things it cannot explain, things that simply will not fit into its categories, however hard you push, press and pull.

Just as to a man with a hammer, everything is a nail, so in the age of science and technology, everything is a scientific and technical matter to be solved by scientific and technical means.

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.

Masks in one layer after another—as many as ten or twenty—had fastened themselves upon me, and I could no longer tell how sad any one of them really was.

Greed did not cover it, nor did vanity. Nor was it simply a combination of lust and greed. I wasn't sure what it was, but I felt that there was something inexplicable at the bottom of human society which was not reducible to economics.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individual.

Comprender los sentimientos de cualquier mujer es más complicado y desagradable que estudiar las emociones de una lombriz. Según mi experiencia, que viene de cuando era niño, cuando una mujer se pone a llorar de repente, lo mejor es ofrecerle algún dulce y enseguida mejora su humor.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.

I don't understand the world." "I don't either. I wonder if anyone does. We all remain children, no matter how much time goes by. We don't understand anything.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals.

Life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.