Complexity Quotes

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax" "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." "People assume that we’re going to have a perfect understanding of things, but things aren’t that simple." "In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order" "In mathematics you don’t understand things, you just get used to them" "Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy." "The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos." "Complexity requires investing energy to go beyond entropy, the universal law of inertia and decay, and beyond the social programming that keeps us on a narrow track" "We are all complicated human beings, and we must deal with various sides of our character" "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)" "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy" "I don't know what people think of me, but I like to be somewhat multi-faceted" "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics" "It is easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook." "Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered" "A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things" "Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air" "Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose" "Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undirected effort"