Associative Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. — Larry Wall
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You… — Annie Lennox
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin… — Sven Birkerts
Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex… — Vannevar Bush
Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This… — Vannevar Bush
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of… — David Foster Wallace
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue… — Yves Klein
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic… — Siri Hustvedt
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the… — Dana Spiotta
The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative… — Michael Graves
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently… — Albert Einstein
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse… — Ferdinand de Saussure
We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and… — Frederick Lenz
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.… — Victor Pelevin
The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle… — David Levithan

Who Wrote These Associative Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Associative Quotes as follows: