Quotes About Nonlinear

There is no linear additive process that, if all the parts are taken together, can be understood to create the total system that occurs at the moment of self-organization; it is not a quantity that comes into being. It is not predictable in its shape or subsequent behavior or its subsequent qualities. There is a nonlinear quality that comes into being at the moment of synchronicity.

It feels like we're always juggling many pieces of information at once or trying out many personas at once. It makes life slightly nonlinear.

Primed to expect that our lives will follow a predictable path, we're thrown when they don't. We have linear expectations but nonlinear realities. Even people who are linear in one area (a stable career, say, or long-running marriage) are nonlinear in others (recurrent health problems or frequent changes in their religious identity).

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.

Most of everyday life is spectacularly nonlinear; if you listen to your two favorite songs at the same time, you won't get double the pleasure. The same goes for consuming alcohol and drugs, where the interaction effects can be deadly. By contrast, peanut butter and jelly are better together. They don't just add up—they synergize.

Whenever the whole is different from the sum of the parts—whenever there's cooperation or competition going on—the governing equations must be nonlinear.

The reason that neither he nor I could predict my life, any more than you can predict yours, is that life is not linear; it is organic.

is a collective emergent agglomeration resulting from nonlinear social and organizational interactions

However difficult it is to study nonlinear systems, such systems probably determine the most important features of choice. As one chaos theorist remarked, "nonlinear systems" may be about as extensive as "non-elephant biology."2

Complex systems are full of interdependencies—hard to detect—and nonlinear responses.

Linear relationships are truly the exception; we only focus on them in classrooms and textbooks because they are easier to understand. Yesterday

the decision maker focuses on the payoff, the consequence of the actions (hence includes asymmetries and nonlinear effects).

Where simplifications fail, causing the most damage, is when something nonlinear is simplified with the linear as a substitute. That is the most common Procrustean bed.

a) The more nonlinear, the more the function of something divorces itself from the something. If traffic were linear, then there would be no difference in traffic time between the two following situations: 90,000, then 110,000 cars on the one hand, or 100,000 cars on the other.

The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in ways not predicted by its components. The interactions matter more than the nature of the units.

because the interactions are not necessarily linear.

the more nonlinear the response, the less relevant the average, and the more relevant the stability around such average.

Warping begets warping in a nonlinear, self-bootstrapping manner. This is a fundamental feature of Einstein's relativistic laws, and so different from everyday experience. It's somewhat like a hypothetical science-fiction character who goes backward in time and gives birth to herself.

In 1958, Fortune singled Nash out for his achievements in game theory, algebraic geometry, and nonlinear theory

My shows are not narratives.

The scholar Kathryn Bond Stockton writes about how the queer child "grows sideways," because queer life often defies the linear chronology of marriage and children.

antilogías y paradojas, y el recurso a una lógica no lineal y no ordinaria, se estudian y experimentan de manera sistemática como eficaces instrumentos de comunicación.

to call the study of chaos "nonlinear science" was like calling zoology "the study of non elephant animals.

Chaos has become not just theory but also method, not just a canon of beliefs but also a way of doing science.