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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
Diane Ackerman
Garden
Mind
Too
Complex
Complexity
Embrace
Finds
Small
Both
Struggles
Vast
Excites
Spot
Rewards
Order
Orders
Them
Including
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
Dick Cavett
Complexity
Dream
Miraculous
More
Weird
Does
Brain
Than
Curiosity
Anything
Show
If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.
Donald Tusk
History
Country
One Country
Complexity
Understand
Israel
Trusted
The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Complexity
Detailed
Geometry
Molecule
Fascinating
Whole
If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
E. L. Doctorow
Bible
Age
Will
Thought
Build
Gone
Everything
Machine
Complexity
Ourselves
Out
Bronze
Find
Able
About
Road
Since
Disaster
Because
How
Brain
Happens
Then
Planetary
Works
Ever
Consciousness
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.
Elaine Pagels
You
Insist
Believe
Think
Christianity
Birth
Approaches
Complexity
Out
Kinds
Some
Throw
Open
Instance
Doctrine
Gospels
Literally
Story
Mean
Whole
Multiplicity
Thing
Women know that we're not just strong. We're not just vulnerable. We are not just attractive or not attractive. We are many things at once, and we're able to see into that complexity.
Elisabeth Moss
Women
Strong
Once
Complexity
See
Able
Know
Attractive
Vulnerable
Just
Many
Things
As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.
Elizabeth Strout
Doctor
Drama
Those
Though
Complexity
TV
Hospital
Contained
Like
Because
Courtroom
Wanted
Prefer
Shows
Novelist
Watch
Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
Emeril Lagasse
Food
Me
Kick
Kicked
Bit
Spice
Complexity
Would
Particular
Like
Always
Up
Going
Being
Dish
Which
Little
Notch
Little Bit
Means
Show
Elevate
Level
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
Emily Blunt
Conflict
Think
Way
Drawn
Complexity
Characters
Some
Duress
Going
Who
The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.
Erno Rubik
Time
Simplicity
Complexity
Cube
Same
Same Time
Symbol
I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.
Fiona Barton
Journalist
Despite
Complexity
Write
Because
Always
Done
Different
Perspectives
Different Perspectives
Chose
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Democracy
Single
Every
Complexity
Constructed
Putting
Day-To-Day
Becoming
Doing
Human
Process
Aspect
Electoral
Electoral Process
Show
Publicity
Symbols
It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.
Gene Luen Yang
Truth
Decision
Big
Secret
Complexity
Deal
Reveal
Big Deal
Motivation
Friend
Behind
Big Things
Us
Your
Deepest
Things
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.
George M. Whitesides
Love
You
Nice
Ways
Papers
Intractable
Complexity
Responsible
Outcomes
About
Write
Academic
Academics
Am
Many
Nice Thing
Thing
Fundamentally
Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax.
George Osborne
Me
Commitment
Complexity
About
Reduction
Tax
Many
Carbon
I would hope that government officials have a healthy respect for the complexity of the gang problem. They should never lose sight of the fact that there are human beings involved. There is no single solution.
Greg Boyle
Hope
Government
Respect
Problem
Single
Healthy
Lose
Sight
Complexity
Would
Solution
Fact
Never
Involved
Government Officials
Officials
Human
Human Beings
Should
Gang
Beings
The power of Ayasdi is its unique ability to automatically discover insights - regardless of complexity - without asking questions.
Gurjeet Singh
Power
Complexity
Ability
Insights
Without
Discover
Questions
Automatically
Regardless
Asking
Asking Questions
Unique
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Complexity
Higher
Piano
Developed
Concerto
Much
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara
Work
Quality
Before
Complexity
Directly
Retail
Arm
Opened
Renowned
Shop
Room
Produced
Across
Large
Workshop
Even
Among
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Herbert A. Simon
Time
Simple
Reflection
Behavior
Our
Complexity
Ourselves
Systems
Find
Environment
Over
Behaving
Quite
Human
Human Beings
Which
Viewed
Apparent
Beings
Largely
I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.
Herbert A. Simon
World
Took
Complexity
Tried
Some
Uncertainty
Develop
Account
Theories
I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.
Hiam Abbass
Myself
Good
Character
Hate
Human Being
Complexity
Bad
Would
Someone
Could
Written
Know
Cliche
Understand
Still
Behind
Human
Just
Being
Influence
Cannot
Reason
Why
Play
Need
In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.
Hong Chau
Life
You
Human Being
Ways
Complexity
One Thing
Some
More
Than
Human
Being
Either
Movies
Reason
Many
Thing
I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies like that, but I do see them as kind of like a cheeseburger.
Hong Chau
Work
Character
You
Book
Nothing
Complexity
Characters
Kind
See
Like
Cheeseburger
Because
Always
Comic
Comic Book
Lot
Get
Want
Against
Movies
Them
Really
It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.
Howard Rheingold
You
World
Down
Teenager
Our
Broke
Easily
System
Complexity
Entering
Wrench
Could
Devices
Sophisticated
Beyond
Deal
Understand
Equipment
Fix
Automobile
Which
Capability
Your
Used
Now
Street
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