“Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I'm not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, 'yeah, it's good!' Some day.” ThinkingWould BePayFunctionYeahComplicated Author:Ben Affleck
“Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of sociopaths that are CEOs. They don't necessarily kill people but they're able to walk into a big social function and make everybody think they're the kindest, coolest, smartest, most interesting person in the room.” PeopleThinkingPersonsBigsAbleSocialDifferencesWalksInterestingRoomsFunctionComplicatedCharmingCeoMost InterestingPsychopathSociopath Author:Patrick Heusinger
“Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.” IfsThinkingEnoughHelpingSeemsKidsAbleJobsPoliticalTeachDemocracyTroubleFunctionComplicatedCriticalDiverseCritical ThinkingPolitical SystemsBetter JobsDiverse Society Author:Barack Obama
“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” ProcessInvolvedProjectsCriticismFunctionComplicatedArchitectureArchitectBad AssBadassBureaucratsArchitecture And DesignArchitecture DesignModern Architecture Author:Ai Weiwei
“The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.” BrainCreatingAreasFunctionInstrumentsComplicatedScoreCrucialDozenIntegrationOrchestraAutonomousCreating SomethingAssemblage Author:Oliver Sacks
“I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.” IfsGivingI CanPurposeValuesOrderEqualFunctionDetermineComplicatedMonstersKingdomsPlusZeroSteadyStableEquationsMaintainingCdsDenseMaidensHandyDerivativesIntersectionsInsertApexGraphsParabola Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.” KnowsLawUniverseBrainConnectionsFunctionComplicatedCellsChemicalsSignalsNeuroscienceWovenElectricalTissuesKidneysHeart And Brain Author:David H. Hubel
“Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.” WayFactsScienceCoursesGrowthSimpleAnimalStageDevelopmentFunctionSeriesLeavingSimplicityFishesObviousComplicatedBreatheDisappearScalesDevelopingExplanationVisibleAcquireAncestorOrgansRepetitionStraightforwardFrogsShort TimeTadpoles Author:Francis Maitland Balfour
“The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.” KnowsWorldWellsDoeTogetherOrderChanceExistencePrinciplesKnow HowTypeDependsEvolutionFunctionComplicatedDuesConvincedConceptionArchitectOrganismsUnbelievableLiving ThingsInterconnectionBiochemistryExistence Of Life Author:Allan Sandage
“I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.” MenFeelingsCausesDifferencesAnimalResultsBrainGreaterOffersIntellectualOrganizationAccountsFunctionStructureComplicatedKingdomsRationalSufficientFacultySuperiorityParallelsVariationExquisitePropensityEndowmentCerebralHemisphereApproximationAnimal Kingdom Author:Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet