Quotes About Complexity

He] did not understand women. It wasn't the way bartenders or comedians didn't understand women, it was the way poor people didn't understand the economy. You could stand outside the Girard Bank Building every day of your life and never guess anything about what went on in there. That's why, in their hearts, they'd always rather stick up a 7-Eleven.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers.

Feeling bad at breakfast because you don't have a hangover is evidence of a complex emotional life it can take many years to perfect.

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

John Briere, quip that if Cptsd were ever given its due, the DSM [The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders] used by all mental health professionals would shrink from its dictionary like size to the size of a thin pamphlet.

paper-pushers can't figure me out. all they understand is bullshit and politics, which amounts to the same thing.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. —Scientist Emerson M. Pugh

Cognitive psychologists have confirmed what we already knew: that readers of complex novels show a greater capacity for understanding the complexities of human interaction.8

everything," Balzac claims, "is a mosaic.

We need novels in order to enter the minds of others. But that project can run up against the opacities of other minds and spirits. When a man tells us of a woman's desiring, we should beware of blindness.

This presumption by the professor that her students will readily follow something complex that appears fundamental in her own mind is a metacognitive error, a misjudgment of the matchup between what she knows and what her students know.

People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery. A mental model is a mental representation of some external reality.

It's thought that this heightened sensitivity to similarities and differences during interleaved practice leads to the encoding of more complex and nuanced representations of the study material—a better understanding of how specimens or types of problems are distinctive and why they call for a different interpretation or solution.

It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you disappears and is replaced by a different, more complex, person. You watch him revolve in this new company, revealing new facets, and there is nothing you can do but hope you like these other sides as much as you like the side that seemed whole when it faced only you.

Tener malas experiencias a veces es una ayuda, te aclara lo que deberías hacer. Sé que esto parece demasiado optimista, pero es cierto. Quienes sólo han tenido buenas experiencias no son muy interesantes. Puede que estén contentos y sean felices de alguna manera, pero son superficiales. Ahora te parecerá un contratiempo, algo que te complica la vida, pero... es demasiado sencillo vivir sin complicaciones.

Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

The superficial and the slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization.

the Bible is ancient, ambiguous, and diverse.

Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.' Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. 'Thanks, Dad. That's helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits.

Calabi-Yau manifold

and they're all analogue signals, which is even stranger.