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Quotes About Convergence

there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an end can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.
~ David Foster Wallace
Uniform Convergence & Associated Aracana item (d) for exceptional points, which again please recall can also be called 'discontinuities'. (N.B.: Some math classes also use singularity to mean exceptional point, which is both confusing and intriguing since the term also refers to Black Holes, which in a sense is what discontinuities are.)
~ David Foster Wallace
Symbol-laden and technologically-driven histories of building were historically interwoven and conceptually compatible. National Socialism adopted just this convergence of the symbolic and the technological as a program, and this made it impossible ever after to pursue such a program.
~ Unknown
Take care of the components, ad the sum of their parts unfolds as if by magic.
~ Lionel Shriver
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.
~ Charles Jencks
My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs.
~ Pratibha Patil
I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
~ Natalie Massenet
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
His point, again and again, was that truth wasn't the property of any one faith and that, if you looked closely, you found a ground where they all converged.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.
~ Sarah Dessen
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
La convergencia de intereses durante toda la vida de dos personas que no comparten los genes es tal vez la hazaña más sobresaliente de la historia evolutiva humana.
~ David M. Buss
Unification is always more progressive than division.
~ Unknown
Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table
~ Comte de Lautreamont
When the mind, body, and spirit work as one, anything is possible.
~ Criss Angel
I mean, my understanding is that the live-action and the comic book versions of the Umbrella Academy' will parallel with each other while still keeping their distance, so that fans of the comic books who have already read the storyline has something new to look forward to and in approaching a new season.
~ Aidan Gallagher
I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time: the logical and the romantic.
~ Sean Scully
It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives. Pinterest came at it through images, artfully curated. Facebook came at it through friends, cunningly organized. Dropbox came to it via files, cleverly clouded.
~ John Battelle
It started, as all dialogues do, when a path crosses that of another .
~ Unknown
man's evolution was unique in showing the dominance of convergence over divergence:
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The very fact of our becoming aware of this profound ordering of things will enable human collectivization to pass beyond the enforced phase, where it now is, into the free phase: that in which (men having at last understood that they are inseparably joined elements of a converging Whole, and having learnt in consequence to love the preordained forces that unite them) a natural union of affinity and sympathy will supersede the forces of compulsion.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Entertainment and information work well together.
~ Marvin Sapp
Technology is a new evolutionary means of convergence; it is accelerating evolution by causing humankind to concentrate upon itself through complex levels of information.
~ Unknown