Complexity Quotes

"What we observe is not a pure randomness, but a mixture of order and disorder, of patterns and chaos, of regularities and irregularities" "Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing." "It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple." "Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity." "There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs" "The human race is getting simpler by the minute, there are fewer and fewer questions" "It is much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem." "The more clear an idea is, the more surely it is based on confusion." "The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life" "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry" "There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth" "Every one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes." "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows" "The struggle is really complex, but it still continues" "The problem with ideologies is that they fail to take into account the inherent complexity of human nature." "Only entropy comes easy." "The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale." "The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything" "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."