Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable.… — Tommy Davidson Copy Share Image
Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part,… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“Linear time has to be envisaged as a huge, endless knife blade scraping its way across the universe, and drawing it along… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's… — Barry Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many… — Eleanor Coppola Copy Share Image
Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not… — Daniel B. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image