Linear Quotes

137 quotes by 124 authors

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order… — Toni Cade Bambara
Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually… — Beck
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. — Thomas Carlyle
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. — Larry Wall
Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in… — Frank Waters
The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be… — Penelope Lively
I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. — Leon M. Lederman
...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear change and fluctuations.… — Syun-Ichi Akasofu
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a… — Ellen MacArthur
I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours… — Eleanor Coppola
Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time. — Eleanor Coppola
Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with… — Julia Stiles
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. — 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… — Emile M. Cioran
The linear design of FFXIII had a great advantage in providing players with enough time to become familiarized with the new battle system and the… — Motomu Toriyama
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories. — Daniel B. Shapiro
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression. — Isobelle Carmody
I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks. — Neil Peart
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print — Laurell K. Hamilton

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