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Quotes About Non-linear

My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions.
~ Kip Thorne
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
~ David Duchovny
I also employ the scatter technique of Sufi writers. Topics do not always appear in linear, logical order, but in a non-linear psycho-logical order calculated to produce new ways of thinking and perceiving. This technique also intends to assist the process of internalization.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
~ Natasha Trethewey
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
~ Adam Rapp
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
~ David Duchovny
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There's so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you.
~ Irvine Welsh
When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.
~ John Ralston Saul
I want to see the guitar in a non-linear sense that encompasses tones, arrangements, songwriting, audio production, and everything else - you have to do it all.
~ Jim Root
Time Warrior gives us a revolutionary, non-linear approach for dealing with time, as bold as it is fresh and new.
~ Steve Chandler
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
~ Steven Moffat
Our technologies have got ahead of our theories. Our theories are still fundamentally reductionist, componential and linear. Our technologies, however, are increasingly complex, emergent and non-linear.
~ Sidney Dekker
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
~ Steven Moffat
The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear—the simplification that distorts.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Few things are harder to predict accurately than the timing and magnitude of financial crises, because the financial system is so genuinely complex and so many of the relationships within it are non-linear, even chaotic.
~ Niall Ferguson
the financial system is so genuinely complex and so many of the relationships within it are non-linear, even chaotic.
~ Niall Ferguson
I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.
~ Michaela Watkins
One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.
~ Marc Forster
It's a spectacular signal. It's a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows the dynamics of objects in the strongest gravitational fields imaginable, a domain where Newton's gravity doesn't work at all, and one needs the fully non-linear Einstein field equations to explain the phenomena.
~ Rainer Weiss
The global e-learning online market is on fire. Organizations which feel left out of this non-linear world of opportunities are seeing the need to adopt this new way of lifelong learning.
~ Ronnie Screwvala
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.
~ Alan Watts