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"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
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"The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Not yet. So though humanity conquered the very stars, it remained unable to conquer the darkness within."
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"There is no such complicated situation which people could not make more complicated."
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"Many lies lie between one truth."
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"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."
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"The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale."
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"The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity."
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"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
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"Robust systems have a dynamic hierarchy of nested behaviors. How many moves ahead are you able to think when playing chess? How much effort are you willing to commit to understanding the deeply nuanced structure? Probably, success is not what you think it is. Adventures require novelty. Value has interesting surprises."
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"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
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"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
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"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."
People
"In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it."
Work
"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
Want
"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."
Time
"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."
Memory
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
Complexity
"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."
Home
"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."
Time
"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
Personal
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