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• Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms.

  Dore Ashton

  Artist, Simple, Garden

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• Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Narrative, Metaphor

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Years, Narrative, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Imagination, Intuition, Weak

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• But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

  David Mazzucchelli

  Lying, Two, Choices

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• No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic.

  Satoru Iwata

  Games, Creating, Path

  "GDC 06: Satoru Iwata Keynote". www.ign.com. March 23, 2006.

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• Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.

  Andrea diSessa

  Learning, Black And White, Intelligent

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• All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.

  Kenny Smith

  Eye, Opposites, Issues

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• I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

  Steven Spielberg

  Stories, Unconventional, Storytelling

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• The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Style, Different, Way

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• Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life.

  Sam Keen

  Men, Calendars, Cadence

  Sam Keen (1994). “Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening the Spirit in Everyday Life”, Bantam

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• There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Creativity, Science, Diversity

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• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  Dana Spiotta

  Memories, Dysfunction, Needs

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• The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?

  Eric Voegelin

  Block, Philosophy, Reality

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• Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Consensus, Humans, Built

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Needs, Novel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Buddhism, Dwelling

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

  Terry Bozzio

  Way, Kind, Teach

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Philosophy, Space, Way

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Despite streaming, despite the rise of tablets and smartphones - all the implications which in theory would make linear TV less important - live sporting events are extremely powerful. But it's not the event alone - it's also what's surrounding it.

  Martin Sorrell

  Powerful, Smartphones, Important

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

  John Kao

  Creative, Different, Flow

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.

  Russell Means

  Divorce, Vision, Brain

  Source: progressive.org

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• Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Writing, Thinking, Luck

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Ignorance, Thinking, Engineering

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• It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Fashion, Drama, Thinking

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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