“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.” IfsWayProblemLightEyeScienceHeavenStarsHoursPowerfulDarknessFailingComplexesIntellectFocusedNakedPerceiveConcentrationMost PowerfulRaysExposedFar AwayPlatesLensesTelescopesDarkness To LightRays Of LightComplex ProblemsNaked Eyes Book:Advice for a Young Investigator Source: Advice for a Young Investigator
“Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.” ThinkingLifeReasonFacesStarsSimpleAnswersImpossibleFailingPerspectiveComplexesMindsetContraryStaringMeaning Of LifeDirtLensesLungsThoughts On LifeTelescopesSpecks Author:Jason Calacanis
“By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.” FirstsAnswersFailingModernCivilizationInstitutionsMajorityComplexesModern Day Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.” IfsArtLinesPerfectFailingBuildingSightInstrumentsComplexesMusicalPerformingSublimeAcousticsPerforming ArtsMusical Instruments Author:Moshe Safdie
“All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.” HumansIdeasDifferentSometimesProblemActionEffortPlansFailingMagicSacrificeSolutionsComplexesSolveBulletsComponentsHuman Problems Author:Alan Carr