Complexity Quotes

“His dark hair was tousled from the wind, the
kind of mess that looked accidental but somehow perfect.”
― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: SECRETS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

“We will always need to navigate our unknown world, but we don’t have to do so in ignorance.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“A single triggering phenomenon can generate an avalanche of disproportionate - and seemingly disparate - impacts when the simultaneous ripple effects collide.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“In our disruptive world, the smallest changes can cause large impacts.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The difference between a Black Swan and another Complex Five lies in the extent of our preparation, assumptions and imagination.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“In these paradigm shifts, addressing individual parts of a problem will not resolve anything.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“This asymmetry means that the fragile suffers a disproportionate amount of downside from shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Decentralized systems can offer more resilience and antifragility, as this single point of failure does not exist.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Developing antifragility means focusing on the amplitude of potential consequences, not the probability.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“We know that love and desire can play havoc with our lives, but we are human and complicated.”
― Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

“If we're able to leave room for the encounters that will change us in ways we can't yet see, we can also acknowledge that we are each a confluence of forces that exceed our own understanding.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“In this city, funerals weren’t endings. They were invitations to war.”
― Yarro Rai, Vice and Virtue

“The pursuit of clarity begins with accepting ambiguity.”
― Daniel Wieser

“To insist that one’s pain is complex can feel cringey, withering. But it is. Complex. One’s love, too.”
― Kaveh Akbar

“Complexity is increasing.
Entropy is increasing.
Chaos is increasing.”
― Daniel Wieser

“Complexity in martial arts is the key to ineffectiveness.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Complexity in martial arts: key to ineffectiveness.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“They say 'keep it simple' but
reality is complex.
Our subconscious and conscious levels of awareness
continue to interact
in a myriad of ways that make up who we are
and how we do things.

So perhaps we, ourselves--
each of us,
all of us--
are the most complex
contradictory co-existing reality
of all.”
― Shellen Lubin

“There are many pandemics in today’s world, some less purely imaginary than others, and of these the pathological need for ever-increasing complexity nears the top of the list.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Clearly, despite the oft-repeated propaganda sound bite that technology is here to make life easier, the increasing complexity of the modern world isn’t doing many people a lot of favors.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Just because your chains are only in your mind doesn’t make them less binding. ‘Free your mind’ is more than a proverbial movie line; it’s urgent advice to those shackled to complexity here in the Matrix.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“From under her relentless hatred of you, which is sincere and absolute, shines love at every moment and... madness... the most sincere and boundless love, and - madness! Conversely, from under the love she feels for me, also sincerely, there shines hatred at every moment - the greatest hatred! Until now I could never have imagined all these "metamorphoses".”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

“Every situation in my life in which I have ever happened to find myself, however unspeakably shameful, utterly degrading, vile and, most importantly, ridiculous, has always aroused both boundless anger and unbelievable pleasure in me.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

“We carry within us a multiplicity - we are not one voice, but many.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The Council of Gods

“In essence, your mind isn’t truly of one mind; it’s an assembly of different processes and perspectives, honed over eons of evolution, each with its own agenda and voice.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The Council of Gods

“Imagining someone who will not collapse my complexity into compressed and simplified roles like friend, lover, genius, or ghost... such a being exists only in my dream world.”
― Sov8840

“History is often imagined as a series of events, unfolding one after the other like a sequence of falling dominoes. But most human experiences are processes, not events. Divorce may be an event, but it almost always results from a lengthy process...”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“History is often imagined as a series of events, unfolding one after the other like a sequence of falling dominoes. But most human experiences are processes, not events. Divorce may be an event, but it almost always results from a lengthy process - and the same could be said for birth, or battle, or infection. Similarly, much of what some imagine as dichotomous turns out to be spectral, from neurodivergence to sexuality, and much of what appears to be the work of individuals turns out to be the work of broad collaborations. We love a narrative of the great individual whose life is shot through with major events and who turns out to be either a villain or a hero, but the world is inherently more complex than the narratives we impose upon it, just as the reality of experience is inherently more complex than the language we use to describe that reality.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Neurodivergence doesn’t follow a straight line. It curves, overlaps, and branches into complex, beautiful configurations.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life

“The stories they don’t want you to read? Read them twice. The truths they tell you are too complex? Learn them deeply. That’s how systems begin to crack.”
― Lawrence Nault