Quotes About Incompleteness

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

And incompleteness of any sort leads to trouble.

She walks to a table She walk to table She is walking to a table She walk to table now What difference does it make What difference it make In Nature, no completeness No sentence really complete thought Language, like woman, Look best when free, undressed.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

We always think of what's missing.

Like a book completely intact but missing one word every dozen, making it a miserable and confusing read.

You love nothing. You are incomplete. The human parts of you are missing. You're as dead as you are deadly.

A horizon is a phenomenon of vision. One cannot look at the horizon; it is simply the point beyond which we cannot see. There is nothing in the horizon itself, however, that limits vision, for the horizon opens onto all that lies beyond itself. What limits vision is rather the incompleteness of that vision

We started to collect more and more of these words and concepts, and began to realize what an arbitrarily selective work the Oxford English Dictionary is. It simply doesn't recognize huge wodges of human experience.

philosopher Kurt Gödel reached a similar conclusion in his 1931 "incompleteness theorem." We are thus left with the perplexing situation of being able to define a problem, to prove that a unique answer exists, and yet know that the answer can never be found.

Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot.

It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder.

Sus rostros eran absolutamente similares en un detalle: parecían extremadamente incompletos, como cuadros con agujeros por ojos o como un rompecabezas al que le faltase una pieza nimia. Y eso que echaba en falta, pensó Richards, era el aire de desesperación. En sus estómagos no aullaban los lobos. Sus mentes no estaban llenas de sueños viciados, de esperanzas insensatas.

The sum of such chaos was that I seemed to be reading a book that never really started and never quite finished.

There was, he knew, within him, hidden deep and far away, a great slumbering turbulence he could neither understand nor reach, a turbulence that was also a void, the business of unfinished things.

There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn't describe me. There was something empty in me that in other people was full.

my real face, which was merely an incomplete copy of the mask...

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

El mundo es tal vez el bosquejo rudimentario de algún dios infantil, que lo abandonó a medio hacer, avergonzado de su ejecución deficiente; es obra de un dios subalterno, de quien los dioses superiores se burlan; es la confusa producción de una divinidad decrépita y jubilada, que ya se ha muerto

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.