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• I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Games, Indulge In

  Douglas Rushkoff (1994). “Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace”, Harper San Francisco

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• Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.

  Charlie Ergen

  Running, Risk, Way

  "Dish's Charlie Ergen: Networks' Criticism of Ad-Skipping Service Is 'Disingenuous'" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, Years, Fifteen

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• Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

  Craig Ferguson

  Referee, Engineers

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.142, Chronicle Books

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• We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change.

  John Allen Paulos

  Cheer, Science, Obscure

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• The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Grief, Acceptance, Feelings

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• I had a very linear story line for this particular play, and I wanted to open the piece up a bit, so I started doing that with my writing. I would describe fragments of scenes on index cards, then move the card around to see how it changed the piece.

  Philip Kan Gotanda

  Moving, Writing, Play

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• 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 out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity.

  George Dantzig

  Discovery, Order, Goal

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• I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Meditation, Labels, Hopeless

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Land

  "Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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• The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

  Alfred Binet

  Intellectual, Quality, Doe

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920”

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• One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.

  Tobin Bell

  Order, Interesting, Stories

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tobin Bell's First Interview Since Completing Saw IV!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 13, 2007.

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• When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.

  Edward T. Hall

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

  Jennifer Stone

  Passion, Fire, Poetry

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• My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Writing, Process, Found

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

  David Duchovny

  Games, Quality, Tvs

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. November 21, 2003.

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• The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Eastern, Western

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• You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.

  Eve Ensler

  Enlightenment, Would Be, Path

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• 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 only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.

  Roger Fry

  Eye, Artist, Hands

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• We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information that is given to us is given to us in a linear manner ... we are taught to communicate in a way that is actually constricting our ability to think.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Thinking, Body, Information

  Richard Saul Wurman (1989). “Information Anxiety”, New York : Doubleday

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• 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 understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.

  David Hockney

  Meaningful, Drawing, Lovely

  "David Hockney". Book by Marco Livingstone, 1976.

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• Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

  Aaron Tveit

  Fashion, Moving, Rights

  Source: collider.com

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• It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.

  Noah Hawley

  Moving, Mean, One Direction

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of 'Fargo,' Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting 'Cat's Cradle'". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

  Vandana Shiva

  Struggle, Issues, Progress

  Source: scottlondon.com

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