Linear Quotes

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Non-linear means it's hard to solve.

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

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.

The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.