Complexity Quotes

"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" "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"