Complexity Quotes

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.

All the stream that's roaring byCame out of a needle's eye.

Love why do we one passion call,When 'tis a compound of them all?Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,In all their equipages meet;Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear,Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.

I am large, I contain multitudes

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.