Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb
The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions.
A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.
It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]. . . This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.
Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity
Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.
Poetry is a very complex art. . . . It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.
The cultures of the Americas were extremely complex and interesting, with their own languages and observatories to watch the stars. The more you know about them the more you realize how extremely impressive they were. Bloodthirsty, though, I think they were as well.
Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.
Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.
Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.