Quotes About Complexity

el capitalismo es un sistema complejo y adaptativo que ha alcanzado los límites de su capacidad para adaptarse.

Lust and the English make no sense to me.

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot.

You can ask ten different psychiatrists what they might do in a given situation, and you might get ten different answers. And it's possible that none of them would be wrong.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Therapy" can go on for weeks, months, sometimes even years, in the pretend mode of psychic reality, where internal states are discussed at length, sometimes with excessive detail and complexity yet no progress is made, and no real understanding is experienced. Ideas do not form a satisfactory bridge between inner and outer reality, and affects do not accompany thoughts. Such phenomena are extremely well known from clinical work with eating disorders.

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

In the days before people asked questions of every innocent thing, before this relentless need to name, to label, to categorize. People had understood that life might be rich, complicated, ambiguous.

Sometimes it's possible for a decision to be right and wrong at the same time

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage was good because it was a sign of selflessness, that ignorance was bad because fear sprang from it, that knowledge was good because the more you knew of the world's complexity the more clearly you saw the insignificance of the part you played.

Love is a word for unfinished business, I think.

Parte do talento excepcional de Einstein residia em sua capacidade de refletir sobre os mais complexos problemas e fórmulas e perceber os princípios fundamentais sobre os quais estes se sustentam.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect.

You can never be too subtle, and you can never be too simple.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Il faut regarder la configuration ensemble pour déterminer le comportement des parties et non l'inverse.

Although we usually fail to think of it in this way, the world around us today is just one of countless possible worlds. The millions of species of plants, animals, and insects we see around us are the expression of myriad interacting processes, including chance -- perhaps especially chance. At any point in its prehistory, a species might just easily have taken a different direction, given a slightly altered confluence of events, thus leaving today's world a slightly different place.

When he had first known her, the violent decisiveness with which she judged people had charmed him. For Emma, people were enemies or protectors. Even though the charm had worn off, he sometimes envied her–her sense of others devoid of the kind of complex and enervating reflections he was given to–for within her limits she was clear while he, he thought, moved in a permanent blur.

one hallmark of intellect is the ability to simplify, to make the complex easy to understand. Anyone can be unclear. The way to credibility is to speak and write plainly without language that bewilders or misleads.