complexity

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

It__ not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that__ deftly deluding mankind. It__ man himself.

It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

There is risk, known and unknown, in all aspects of life. We often consider the loss of life the only serious risk. Unless we are genuinely aware, we calculate the danger arising from our own physical and emotional states and from external conditions based on incomplete information. If we believe we can manage those risks, we accept them. Whether these choices are born of delusion or reality comes out in the end.

The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.

Every leader is different. Every bench is different. Every business is different. So while the complexities change, the work of coaching stays the same keep your clients at the center of the work, push them to use their strengths more and to temper their weaknesses, and illuminate blind spots because these are what really get in the way.

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207)

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There__ so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I__ interested in creating in some way or another, whether it__ photography or writing or just walking through the world.

Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.

A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.