#complexity

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

#becoming #complexity #constructed #day-to-day #democracy

I put my clothing into the refrigerator and the foods into my wardrobe; am I in love? ↗

— Munia Khan

#insanity #love #food

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#asking #audience #being #characters #coming

We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#deal #more #need #out #paradigm

I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that is not always widely accepted by the general audience, which is just a reality; a movie of a certain size, they don't want people to be too - it's a balance of how deep to keep going with these ideas. ↗

— Len Wiseman

#always #anything #audience #balance #certain

To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity. ↗

— Michael Denton

#factory #id #intelligent-design #irreducible-complexity #living-cells

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#compromise #conversation #creativity #diversity #left

I love to work. I love to have complexity. ↗

— Mary McDonnell

#i #i love #love #work

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#complexity #does #growing #imply #intellectual

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. ↗

— Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA

#elegance #simple #simplicity #virtue #education