Quotes About Complex

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.

Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

We like mature storytelling. We like dramatic storytelling. We like intense storytelling.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

Life, to me, doesn't feel like a straightforward story; it doesn't make sense for me to get up there and just tell a story. Life feels like what my show feels like: chaotic and strange and disconnected.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Marla had always been better at tearing things apart, at least in a physical level (though she liked to think she was good at building more theoretical things, like the complex structure of loyalty, fear, and obligation that kept things running back home).

a continuous curve that goes from the lower half-plane to the upper half-plane must cross the horizontal axis at some point.

The curious switch, from initially perceiving an obstruction to a problem to eventually embodying this obstruction as a number or an algebraic object of some sort that we can effectively study, is repeated over and over again, in different contexts, throughout mathematics. Much later, complex quadratic irrationalities also made their appearance. Again these were not at first regarded as "numbers as such," but rather as obstructions to the solution of problems.

there are only four units in the ring R-1 of Gaussian integers, namely ±1 and ±i; multiplication by any of these units effects a symmetry of the infinite square tiling

They put a face on globalization, arguing that its complex challenges were the result of a conspiracy against the nation.

Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.

I'm not a big fan of the Olympic Games. The ATP calendar is a bit complex due to the Olympic event.

I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.

I'm not a one-dimensional character.

To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.