“It is a great error to speak of the things of the world absolutely, and as it were, by rule.”— Francesco Guicciardini
“If you look at the world, the world is a very complicated place. I'm not a big fan of it, but it's the world we live in.”— Abdullah II of Jordan
“The theory of roughness, the theory of the irregular, of the chaotic, is now at the center of science.”— Benoit Mandelbrot
“Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics.”— Philip Warren Anderson
“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.”— Bjarne Stroustrup
“When you cover politics, you realize that it's not a game of checkers. It's a game of three-dimensional chess.”— Jeff Greenfield
“Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.”— Bjarne Stroustrup
“Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, cunning, mysterious, frustrating, maddening, sensible, nonsensical, simple, complicated, cerebral, physical, spontaneous, studied, elusive, attainable, honorable, and dishonorable game.”— Amy Alcott
“Our Batman is a flawed character. He's not a good guy. He's not a bad guy. He's in a grey area.”— Christian Bale
“I'm attracted to things that are a little bit complicated and a little bit challenging.”— Jason Bateman