“You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism...” — Geoffrey West Quote

“You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.”

“We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy.”

“Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.”

“The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.”

“My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.”

“Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.”

“No longer do I have these terrible complexes I had when I was younger, and I am able to enjoy what life's offering me.”

“I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.”

“Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.”

“A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.”

“The perception of juiciness involves a complex jumble of things, including how quickly juices are squeezed out of meat fibers by our teeth, how much saliva we produce, and the ratio of liquid fat to water-based liquid.”

“Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.”