Douglas Rushkoff

I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

American Journalist

Dylan Thomas

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

Welsh Poet

Paul Singer

Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.

American Businessman

Carson McCullers

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

American Novelist

Use 'convolution' to describe situations that are complex and difficult to unravel.

Confusing Scenarios

'Convolution' often implies surprising changes or developments in a scenario.

Unexpected Developments

The term 'convolution' doesn't express a positive or negative judgment, just complexity.

Neutral Tone

Refers to the physical twisting or coiling shape of an object, not figurative twists.

Physical Form

Use 'convolution' when you can visually observe the turns and twists.

Visible Twists

In math, 'convolution' refers to a specific calculation between two functions.

Mathematical Process

Use 'convolution' in math or technical discussions, not in everyday conversation.

Technical Term

In biology, 'convolution' can describe folded patterns, as in brain anatomy.

Biological Structure

'Convolution' in biology may imply complexity and advanced development.

Associated with Intelligence

 and it's still a thin structure. It's about the thickness of a table napkin. But it has so many convolutions and ridges it's now 80 percent of our brain, and that's where we do our thinking, and it's the great sublimator. We still have that old brain that provides our basic drives and motivations,

Convolution

A complex or difficult to understand situation or state of affairs.