Quotes About Sequence

Only a matter of timing.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

No colour comes after black.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

I think of a playlist like a setlist at a concert. The first song is crucial, that establishes the vibe.

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

By analogy, we know that if a hypersphere (a sphere with four spatial dimensions) were to pass through our universe, it would appear to us as a time sequence of three-dimensional spheres that increase, then decrease, in size.

I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.

You came after me, you can't have preceded me, you're completely inconceivable before me.

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.

La vita d'una persona consiste in un insieme d'avvenimenti di cui l'ultimo potrebbe anche cambiare il senso di tutto l'insieme, non perché conti di più dei precedenti ma perché inclusi in una vita gli avvenimenti si dispongono in un ordine che non è cronologico, ma risponde a un'architettura interna.

Il suo segreto è il modo in cui la vista scorre su figure che si succedono come in una partitura musicale nella quale non si può cambiare spostare nessuna nota

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P…

7-14-12-4-14-5-19-7-4-2-17-8-2-10-4-19-12-0-18-19-4-17 Coke looked at the numbers and

This relocation of the picture raises an important issue when looking at works of art – quite often they are no longer in their original location, and we see them as part of a historical sequence

The left hemisphere is sequential; the right hemisphere is simultaneous. Consider another dimension of the alphabetic mind: it processes sounds and symbols in sequence. When you read this sentence, you begin with the "when," move to the "you," and decode every letter, every syllable, every word in progression. This, too, is an ability at which your brain's left hemisphere excels.

As with many concepts, "information" has a special and specific meaning to mathematicians and scientists: It is anything that reduces uncertainty. Put another way, information exists wherever a pattern exists, whenever a sequence is not random. The more information, the more structured or patterned the sequence appears to be.

Your left brain loves and desires order. It is logical, literal, linguistic (it likes words), and linear (it puts things in a sequence or order). The left brain loves that all four of these words begin with the letter L. (It also loves lists.)

Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.