#complex

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#adult #bloody #books #children #complex

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #black #black history #complex #could

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#among #aspiration #complex #diversified #great

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #comes #complex #controlled #erroneous

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#complex #deal #education #jobs #need

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention. ↗

— Howie Carr

#attention #complex #dependency #increase #paying

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#beautiful #beautiful thing #complex #hot #i

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. ↗

— Scott Turow

#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#campaigned #carl #complex #destruction #end