Linear Quotes

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

Non-linear means it's hard to solve.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.