Convergent Quotes

#1. Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

John Maeda

#2. The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

Christopher Buckley

#3. Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

Daniel Dennett

#4. In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.

Douglas Adams

#5. I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.

Simon Conway Morris

#6. Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#7. This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#8. I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn't do this to someone I hated.

Sarah Thebarge

#9. It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?

Jude Deveraux

#10. What we did not possess we had to make for ourselves or learn to do without, but the little I learned helped me to build a defense against the change that time would surely bring, to teach me that to live was to change, and that change was the one irrevocable law. Nothing remained the same.

Louis L'Amour

#11. Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren't competent to have an opinion about it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. But knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things.

Maureen Johnson

#14. The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.

Robin Sharma