#comp

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#actually #bad #characters #completely #control

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. ↗

— Anita Diament

#close #compare #english #favorite #how

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? ↗

— Princess Diana

#better #compromise #happy #how #just

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#always #been #completely #devoted #earnest

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#differ #friend #minds #opinions #scant

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. ↗

— James Dickey

#complicity #deep #feeling #intimacy #sex

Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#against #championships #competition #else #everyone

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#connecticut #ensure #field #fight #i

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse