Sufficiently Complex Quotes

#1. Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

Howard Pattee

#2. Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. And you look bloody young to be a sergeant"
"I was born late, sir

Bernard Cornwell

#4. I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.

Sherilyn Fenn

#5. It's starting to hurt, Billy said, almost like he didn't want to interrupt. A thin

Michael Grant

#6. Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different
story.

Jeff Lindsay

#7. It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

Isaac Asimov

#8. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

Seth Klarman