{"quotes":[{"text":"For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209).","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["architecture","complexity","complicated","construction","design","elegance","intuition","simplicity"],"id":3289,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... That's how I write the horror. It's very complicated.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["complicated","dive","horror","writer"],"id":3828,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["complicated","universe"],"id":4863,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.","author":"Charles Keating","tags":["me","learn","complicated "],"id":9139,"author_id":"Charles+Keating"},{"text":"My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.","author":"Otsuichi","tags":["affection","complex","complicated","complicated-relationship","complicated-relationships","emotions","gratitude","humanity","relationships","resentment","robots"],"id":9264,"author_id":"Otsuichi"},{"text":"I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["attempts","complicated","fabric","failures","family-tree","hurts","life","mistakes","path","road","simple","successes"],"id":9744,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"Recently abandoned women can be complicated.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["abandonment","complicated","women"],"id":10377,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["memory","complicated","twin "],"id":15826,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.","author":"Freeman Thomas","tags":["life","complicated","our lives "],"id":19420,"author_id":"Freeman+Thomas"},{"text":"A mystery is an unknown puzzle to solve like lies and secrets that you need to know. Lies and secrets that are like a cancer in our soul. They eat away what is good and leave only DESTRUCTION behind. A mystery to discover which makes life more COMPLICATED as it seems to be.","author":"Red Delachina","tags":["complicated","destruction","lies","life","mystery","secrets"],"id":21807,"author_id":"Red+Delachina"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":95,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}