Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

“Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or "Asian-American"—is untenable and ridiculous. For one thing, "American" is not a…

— Michael Shermer

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us…

— Carl Woese

To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) … It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that…

— Tom Peters

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

— Alex Shoumatoff

The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And…

— Steven Sebring

Healing is super nonlinear and one thing can set you back two years.

— Eva Victor

In complex systems, one can think about linear interactions and complex or nonlinear interactions.

— Zeynep Tufekci

“One of the ideas of this book is to give the reader a possibility to develop problem-solving skills using both systems, to solve various…

— Inna K. Shingareva

“Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

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

— John Henry Holland

“It becomes complex if things do interact, particularly in the case of “nonlinear” interaction.”

— Pearl Zhu

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

— Chloe Benjamin

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

— Ashley Montagu