Quotes About The Nonlinear

#1. Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.

Carl Woese

#2. Warping begets warping in a nonlinear, self-bootstrapping manner. This is a fundamental feature of Einstein's relativistic laws, and so different from everyday experience. It's somewhat like a hypothetical science-fiction character who goes backward in time and gives birth to herself.

Kip S. Thorne

#3. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Dean Kamen

#4. I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.

Phil Knight

#5. IN CHAOS THEORY, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IS THE SENSITIVE DEPENDENCY ON INITIAL CONDITIONS IN WHICH A SMALL CHANGE AT ONE PLACE IN A DETERMINISTIC NONLINEAR SYSTEM CAN RESULT IN LARGE DIFFERENCES IN A LATER STATE.

Teresa Mummert

#6. Complex systems are full of interdependencies - hard to detect - and nonlinear responses.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Their incredible determination creates the need for nonlinear thinking, combined with boundless energy. Champions also earn money in nonlinear ways. While the masses essentially trade their time for money, the great ones realize this is probably the worst way to acquire wealth. Using

Steve Siebold

#8. Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#9. The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business strategy.

Pearl Zhu

#10. A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.

Gregory Benford

#11. Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

Biz Stone

#12. In the real, physical world or business world, most relationships are nonlinear.

Pearl Zhu

#13. The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

Alex Shoumatoff

#14. Nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

John Henry Holland

#15. There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

John Hull

#16. Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

Ashley Montagu

#17. Utilizing a nonlinear approach and companion competencies makes it possible for people to move from good performance to great.

John H. Zenger

#18. Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Michael Shermer

#19. Motivation is a fine example of social complexity. It is nonlinear and sometimes unpredictable. It cannot be defined or modeled with a single diagram.

Jurgen Appelo

#20. Chaos theory describes nonlinear systems. It's now become a very broad theory that's been used to study everything from the stock market to heart rhythms. A very fashionable theory. Very trendy to apply it to any complex system where there might be unpredictability.

Michael Crichton

#21. The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization's digitization journey increases.

Pearl Zhu

#22. Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

Murray Gell-Mann