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"As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially."
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"My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."

"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."

"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."

"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."

"People are too complicated to have simple labels."

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."

"There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?"

"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
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"We are searching for the most humble man on the planet so that we can award him with a great honor but we are having trouble finding the guy."

"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here."

"The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason."

"Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions."
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