Linear Quotes

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. (Larry Wall)
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence. View quote
Penelope Lively
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The method of successive approximations is often applied to proving existence of solutions to various classes of functional equations; moreover, the proof of convergence of these approximations leans on the fact that the equation under study may be majorised by another equation of a simple kind. Similar proofs may be encountered in the theory of infinitely many simultaneous linear equations and in the theory of integral and differential equations. Consideration of semiordered spaces and operations between them enables us to easily develop a complete theory of such functional equations in abstract form. View quote
Leonid Kantorovich
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. View quote
J. G. Ballard
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. - The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny. View quote
Emil Cioran
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible. View quote
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives. View quote
George Dantzig
When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Time is only linear for engineers and referees. View quote
Craig Ferguson
The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion. View quote
Tobias Forge
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured. View quote
Alfred Binet
Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness. (Robert Lanza)
Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete. View quote
Charlie Ergen
My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself. View quote
Cynthia Weil
As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward, and it's all linear. View quote
David Sanborn
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional. View quote
Dana Spiotta