Linear Quotes

137 quotes by 124 authors

Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay… — George Dantzig
Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot… — Natalie Goldberg
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how… — Joel Salatin
The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular. — Rajneesh
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things… — Bill Gates
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. — Charles Wheelan
You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type… — Marshall McLuhan
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence. — Penelope Lively
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork… — Neil Gershenfeld
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have… — Tommy Davidson
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first… — Carol Anshaw
To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes'… — Geoff Downes
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time… — Frederick Lenz
Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes. — Frederick Lenz
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear… — Joel Salatin
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I… — David Hockney
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not… — Roger Fry
Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever. — Frederick Lenz

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