"Memory is not particularly linear - it is……" — Dana Spiotta

More Associative Quotes

This quote is filed under Associative Quotes, one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• 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… — Annie Lennox
• Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative… — Sven Birkerts
• Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to… — Vannevar Bush
• Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select… — Vannevar Bush
• Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which… — David Foster Wallace
• Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically… — Yves Klein
• Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images… — Siri Hustvedt
• The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order… — Michael Graves
• Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play… — Albert Einstein
• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series,… — Ferdinand de Saussure
• We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a… — Frederick Lenz

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