Linear Quote by David Foster Wallace

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

— N. K. Jemisin

My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but…

— Michael Nesmith

I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and…

— Daniel Levitin

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

— Imelda Marcos

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

— Anonymous

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

Just too much fast thinking all the time. I think of so many things all at once, it gets exhausting. You start seeing all…

— Rita Ackermann

I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge…

— Jessica Stockholder

I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right,…

— Bob Odenkirk

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes…

— Christopher Walken

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I…

— Aleksandar Hemon