Complexity Appreciation Quotes

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.