Quotes About Sequence

Those protohumans are generally known as Australopithecus africanus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus, which apparently evolved into each other in that sequence.

All life has two trajectories: the one linear and irreversible, the trajectory of ageing and dying, the other elliptical and reversible, a cycle of the same forms in a sequence which knows neither childhood, death nor the unconscious, and which leaves nothing behind. This sequence is constantly intersecting with the other, and occasionally erases all traces of it at a stroke.

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

J'ai voulu que les moments de ma vie se suivent et s'ordonnent comme ceux d'une vie qu'on se rappelle. Autant vaudrait tenter d'attraper le temps par la queue.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered.

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. —Anonymous

In fact, something always leads to something else.

something always leads to something else.

Something always leads to something else. - John Puller

One must then go on to a consideration of time as a projection of multidimensional reality into a sequence of moments.

anti-narrative sequences of a man (Watt) sitting in a dark bedroom drinking bourbon while his wife (Heath) and an Amway representative (Johnson) have acrobatic coitus in the background's lit hallway.

The order I found was the order of disorder

But just before she could move, Amon paused in the midst of a sequence, the staff horizontal in front of him, head cocked. He flipped the quarterstaff to a vertical position, turned and looked directly at where Raisa was hiding. "Rai?" he whispered.

All knitting is choreography.

post hoc, propter hoc

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.