We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love to work. I love to have complexity.
I suppose I do have an interest in stories that show complexity.
You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.