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Quotes About Convergence

If you want to get into the United States, the best way, I believe, is to ride the network. There is no convergence between, say, the criminal networks and the Islamic extremist networks.
~ John F. Kelly
There were certain places he always seemed to return to, squares or street corners, like refrains, points of convergence where the city doubled back on itself before escaping again around the corner.
~ Nicole Krauss
All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.
~ Clive Barker
Esiste, nella scala dimensionale del mondo, un punto di incontro tra conoscenza ed immaginazione. Un punto al quale si perviene rimpicciolendo le cose grandi ed ingrandendo quelle piccole.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Darkness and silence merged completely
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The more that companies share this conventional wisdom about how they compete, the greater the competitive convergence among them.
~ W. Chan Kim
Factors are coming together, signs are being fulfilled in concert, in ways that have never happened before.
~ Larry Spargimino
Transcend the opposites of death and life, find the Point of Singularity in which the two become One.
~ Laurence Galian
Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Al final, los intereses estratégicos de la cohesión social y de la ganancia son convergentes. Ambas requieren una economía de mercado pujante y un Estado fuerte.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
The Jedi Order's homespun cloaks announced: I want for nothing, because I am clothed in the Force; the cloaks of the Sith: I am the light in the dark, the convergence of opposing energies.
~ James Luceno
German and European unification are two sides of the same coin.
~ Helmut Kohl
The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.
~ Jacques Ibert
Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now.
~ Dee Rees
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
~ Thomas Huxley
For ages they had been without lives of their own. The whole of their being was open to the world and nothing divided them from the rest of creation.
~ Thomas Ligotti
history presses upon us the realization that all knowledge is a borrowing and every fact a debt. For each event is revealed to us only at the surrender of every alternate course. For us, the whole of the traveler's life converges at this place and this hour, whatever we may know of that life or out of whatever stuff it may be made. De acuerdo?
~ Cormac McCarthy
The branches of the leafless tree merge into the man's body, then into the conical geometrical pattern, and finally into the mountainous landscape. What Leonardo probably began as four distinct elements ended up woven together in a way that illustrates a fundamental theme in his art and science: the interconnectedness of nature, the unity of its patterns, and the analogy between the workings of the human body and those of the earth.
~ Walter Isaacson
New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.
~ Walter Isaacson
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
~ Charles Stross
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
~ Lautréamont
The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.
~ lederer katy
As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home
~ Steve Case