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It feels like we're always juggling many pieces of information at once or trying out many personas at once. It makes life slightly nonlinear.
Bo Burnham
Life
Once
Slightly
Out
Feels
Like
Pieces
Makes
Always
Nonlinear
Juggling
Trying
Information
Many
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
Physics
Word
Sense
Changes
Chaos
Indefinitely
System
Outcome
Rather
Writers
Particular
Namely
Course
Nonlinear
Condition
Lot
Often
Tiny
Sensitive
Means
Used
Initial
Phenomenon
Vague
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Adam Grant
Time
You
Procrastination
Think
Consider
Ways
Divergent
Gives
Ideas
Leaps
Make
Nonlinear
Unexpected
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
People
Simple
Mistakes
Numerous
Possible
Kinds
Write
Take
Longest
Along
Come
Like
Dead
Make
Messy
Nonlinear
Line
Historians
Paths
Ends
Process
Straight
Straight Line
Then
Appear
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.
Chloe Benjamin
Love
Hate
Difficult
Think
More
Both
Write
True
Read
Readers
Nonlinear
Either
Storytelling
'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Art
You
Perspective
Seriously
Backward
Tell
TV
Would
More
Animated
Like
Nonlinear
Art Form
Very
Normally
Different
Form
Stories
Samurai
Different Perspective
Show
Watch
Treats
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Alex Shoumatoff
Feedback
Complex
System
Kinds
Global
Loops
Climate
Nonlinear
Interactive
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
Challenges
Measurement
Important
Dimensions
Risk
Like
Terms
Known
Nonlinear
Where
Derivatives
Gamma
Things