#complex

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#design #environmental #great #great problems #problems

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#clue #complexion #fact #his #nature

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#code #complexity #lines #mozilla #project

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. ↗

— Michael Behe

#basic #causes #cease #complex #composed

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ↗

— Pablo Casals

#cunning #heart #his #indeed #machines

The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#complex #composition #control #environment #growth

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#also #any #black #both #complex

I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected. ↗

— Mike Curb

#complexion #elected #get #given #hard

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#building #complex #doing #europe #find

She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness. And all of those brave and wild and cunning and marvelous and beautiful parts they hid away and left in the dark to grow strange mushrooms—and yes, sometimes those wicked and unkind parts, too—end up in their shadow. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#layers #masks #beauty