Quotes about Complexity

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

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

Technology is only one reason that the energy industry can't change as quickly as the computer industry. There's also size. The energy industry is simply enormous—at around $5 trillion a year, one of the biggest businesses on the planet. Anything that big and complex will resist change.

I believe in God because only an idiot can look at the complex balance of nature and believe that has not been designed. Believe it or not, but some people still believe that a watch can make itself out of sand if you just give it enough time. That's what they call evolution. And you wonder why I am cynical. From my point of view you have to be a fool not to be cynical.

Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and not of it.

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.

Genius is full of trash.

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.