Quotes About Nonlinear

Mathematical theory tells us that when a dynamical system has two kinds of nonlinear feedback loop with different periods, these two mechanisms are likely to interact nonlinearly and may generate erratic, unpredictable-looking behavior known as mathematical chaos (Gleick 1987).

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

I've always been really attracted to playing with structure. To take the story of 'Fargo' and break it up in such a way that's it's not linear, per se.

The spot is a self-organizing system, created and regulated by the same nonlinear twists that create the unpredictable turmoil around it. It is stable chaos.

I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

The suppression dates back to the early Christians who tried to root out calendrical paganism, denounced classical cycles, and pushed underground entire branches of nonlinear learning, such as the hermetic fields of alchemy and astrology.

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

He understood that the sources of the gravitational field were not just ponderable matter but also field energy. He realized that gravitational field energy is to be included as a source and that the gravitational field equations were therefore bound to be nonlinear.

time is no longer linear it's more like a chord that flashes in and out of being

It's not cheating; it's expedited nonlinear puzzle completion.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

Let's face it, the universe is messy. It is nonlinear, turbulent, and chaotic. It is dynamic. It spends its time in transient behavior on its way to somewhere else, not in mathematically neat equilibria. It self-organizes and evolves. It creates diversity, not uniformity. That's what makes the world interesting, that's what makes it beautiful, and that's what makes it work.

The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made.

The world is nonlinear. Trying to make it linear for our mathematical or administrative convenience is not usually a good idea even when feasible, and it is rarely feasible.

Politics is profoundly nonlinear.

I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back again. So I got this idea for a 'constellation' novel recounting experiences that were separate from each other but could still be connected on different psychological, physical and political levels.