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Quotes About Vectors

Conspiracy contagion thrived on possibility and coincidence as vectors.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Subjectivity needs movement, directional vectors, ritournelles, rhythms and refrains that beat time to carry it along.
~ Félix Guattari
Climate change is a fact, disrupting the environment, and also affecting economies, disease vectors, and political unrest worldwide.
~ Amy McGrath
We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything.
~ Geoffrey Hinton
How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?
~ Stephanie Vaughn
A laboring woman, though, while she endured her labor, lay at the center of something truly radiant in four dimensions; every birth everywhere, all the vectors of human evolution and migration originating and terminating at the parting of her legs.
~ Michael Chabon
Settling down also brought a huge increase in "human commensals"—mice, rats, and other creatures that live with and off us—and these all too often acted as disease vectors.
~ Bill Bryson
Kirie, did you know that female mosquitoes are the only ones who suck blood? And only when they're carrying a batch of eggs. They need the blood so their eggs will develop and...
~ Junji Ito
Finally, there is a more subtle relation among F, E, and V.
~ Steven Weinberg
Space is never empty. Emotions have vectors and velocity. You can crush a person from a distance. Sometimes the first weapon is the act or art of pulling away.
~ Monica Drake
And better still, reference librarians served well in the role that the internet never did: They were the perfect bouncers at the door of bad information. Or, put differently, they were the best vectors to transmit truth.
~ Chuck Wendig
Three other vectors for infection. That's what this was, wasn't it? It's not contained at all.
~ Chuck Wendig
Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins in night to their destinies in dust and nothingness.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The hawk is on my fist. Thirty ounces of death in a feathered jacket; a being whose world is drawn in plots and vectors that pull her towards lives' ends.
~ Helen Macdonald
Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.
~ Anthony Fauci
diseases represent evolution in progress, and microbes adapt by natural selection to new hosts and vectors.
~ Jared Diamond
people outdoors here just scuttle in vectors from air conditioning to air conditioning. The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
~ David Foster Wallace