Best Nonlinear Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“This asymmetry means that the fragile suffers a disproportionate amount of downside from shocks.”

Resilience Complexity Fragile Antifragile Nonlinear Antifragility

Book:Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Spiderwebs are images of the nonlinear, of the many directions in which something might go, the many sources for it[.]”

Spiders Linear Spider Web Nonlinear Nature Of Reality Spiderweb

Book:Men Explain Things to Me

Source: Men Explain Things to Me

“So (and this would have happened earlier, but I am only remembering it now): I am visiting her one afternoon.”

Memory Storytelling Julian Barnes Nonlinear The Only Story

Book:The Only Story

Source: The Only Story

“My sense of narrative structure was shaped by ROM (Spaceknight) comics. I'd find random issues at the flea market and read them out of order with no context. The entire series was based on a toy I never owned. None of this made any difference.”

Narrative Writing Process Comic Books Nonlinear

Book:Some Books Are Not For Sale

Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale

“I want the reader to get the feeling that the text is trying to rearrange itself, upon every reading or in the act of reading. I don't want the presentation of narrative; I want a life told out of order.”

Narrative Performance Nonlinear

Book:Drift

Source: Drift

“In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.”

“nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.”

Would Be Behavior Complicated Interaction Nonlinear

Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video.”

Ifs Essence Video Painter Narrative Filmmaker Hype Renaissance Nonlinear

Author:Grimes

“People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.”

People Writing Kind Ends Process Lines Simple Mistake Path Walking All Kinds Historian Messy Straight Lines Dead Ends Summary Nonlinear

Author:Dean Kamen

“The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.”

Want Different Dream Wanted Together Film Animal Editing Typical Documentaries Nonlinear

Author:Steven Sebring

“Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.”

Humans Unpredictable Human History Nonlinear

Book:Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

Source: Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

“Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.”

“Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.”

World Feels Past United Environment Evolution Flow Tasks Complexes Biology Organisms Nonlinear

Author:Carl Woese

“Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition”

Mean Used Courses Conditions Particular Chaos Physics Tiny Sensitive Outcomes Phenomenon Vague Initials Nonlinear

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.”

Want Running Challenges Steps Creativity Creative Resources Connections Curiosity Unexpected Challenge Yourself Renewable Resources Offbeat Nonlinear

Book:Things A Little Bird Told Me

Source: Things A Little Bird Told Me

“Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.”

Important Ideas Moving Evolution Conscious Moving Forward Collapse Scenarios Convergence Nonlinear

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.”

“Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.”

Men Labor Pounds Nonlinear

Author:Ashley Montagu

“Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.”

Ifs Littles Soul Reason Spirit Challenges Alive Program Familiar Data Paradox Psychics Embarrassing Mundane Intrusion Monitoring Nonlinear

Author:Tom Robbins

“For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.”

Ifs Needs Persons Stills Hard Able Technology Materials Smart Property Response Complexes Rings Loud Signals Unlikely Frequency Forks Linear Tuning Nonlinear

Author:Neil Gershenfeld