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Complexity is generally understood to refer to such things as the size of a society, the number and distinctiveness of its parts, the variety of specialized social roles that it incorporates, the number of distinct social personalities ...more
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Fernando Pessoa
“It’s human to want what we need, and it’s human to desire what we don’t need but find desirable.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Richard Sennett
“A healthy obsession, we could say, interrogates its own driving convictions.”
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman

Douglas Coupland
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

Arkady Strugatsky
“Or how about this hypothetical definition. Reason is a complex type of instinct that has not yet formed completely. This implies that instinctual behavior is always purposeful and natural. A million years from now our instinct will have matured and we will stop making the mistakes that are probably integral to reason. An then, if something should change in the universe, we will all become extinct - precisely because we will have forgotten how to make mistakes, that is, to try various approaches not stipulated by an inflexible program of permitted alternatives.”
Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

Richard Sennett
“Tests that measure a person’s capacity to manage many problems at the expense of depth suit an economic regime that prizes quick study, superficial knowledge, all too often embodied by consultants who dart in and out of organizations. The craftsman’s ability to dig deep stands at the pole opposite from potential ability deployed in this fashion.”
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman

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