Linear Quotations

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

People will be able to watch it as one linear story, which was George's original intention.

Men have a harder time in our culture. They are brought up to be linear and logical, and not to develop their intuition.

Most of the time, the vocational degrees are part of a linear pathway that would allow them to go straight from here to a bachelor's program.

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

Business conditions were stronger than we had originally anticipated. We reached our interim goal of 60 percent gross margin earlier than we expected and at the same time continued to gain market share in the analog standard linear market.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

There is a perception that the Chinese started out downtrodden and abused in the 19th century and gradually rose to the top of society as model minorities, and you see them winning Nobel Prizes and getting into our best colleges. But it is not a linear progression. Things don't always get better.

The overwhelming majority of people are still going to watch television in a linear fashion. But there's a growing group of people who aren't looking to see what's the best show on in that time slot, but what's the best show available. We need to stay ahead of that.

Surprisingly, Utah is the second highest in the nation in the number of eighth-graders taking algebra, but we are still low in achievement. Our state math core only goes through linear equations.

Our path is not going to be linear or smooth. It's still early days.

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Part of the problem with existing linear advertising models, even in new media like online video, is the general lack of ability to make ads relevant and timely when rolled out to broad audiences. Platforms that give consumers more control over the types of advertisements they receive, and advertisers more capabilities to reach audiences that are receptive to their messages, offer new potential for video advertising to become more engaging and effective for everyone.

I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.

It is not true that there is a linear relationship between price and quality. A higher price doesn't mean its better. The higher you go in price, the quality differences get smaller.

You'll be amazed at how much space is wasted. Just by adding shelves, you'll see how much linear additions that provides within an area.

We draw up the dimensions and evaluate how much linear space that will give them.

We were more linear than we have been in quite a while.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

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The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

At this point in time, we are evaluating what can be added. Everything is case-by-case. We want to figure out what makes sense to put on Apple, what's appropriate, and how does it help the show overall on the linear network.

It would give us the best linear park in the United States and increase the drawing power of the river ... that would make this City even greater.

As the game gets more serious or more important, the effect gets stronger in a linear fashion. We didn't see any spikes after the games in visits. What we assume is that people decided to wait.

The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

We don't want to use our pavements as a linear landfill, just to get rid of things. Some things simply shouldn't be in there.

Even if these games could be described through linear equations, small changes in conditions would alter the outcome. Even in the most optimistic world view, these methods are not going to do well.

A lot of guys are fast, but they're linear runners,

Television is a very straightforward, passive, linear medium.

This is about allowing people to traverse a vast linear park system. The quality of life is going to improve in Boston and for all of us.

Sleeping on something has a lot of power for a lot of reasons. One is that the linear mind is shut off during sleep, so it's pure intuition.

The new computer-based linear test will allow us to give everyone around the world the same test.

Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end.

It's not a guessing game. Most aquariums are linear you walk on one path, one way. We chose to be nonlinear. You come into a central area, and then you make the choice of where you want to go.

I succumbed to temptation and became a scientific administrator, first as Technical Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1982 to 1984, and then Director from 1984 to 1999. The job of a laboratory director is much different from the job of a physicist, particularly in a time of tight budgets. It is much easier to do physics when someone else gets the funds than it is to get the funds for others to do the research.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

Clearly, there's an appetite from Bravo television viewers for increased flow of content that a linear TV channel can't provide. This on-demand push makes great Bravo content that there isn't room for on TV available 24/7.

It'll be kind of like a long, linear park with a serpentine path to add some interest. It will be much more aesthetically attractive and will enhance the drainage in the ditch.

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

It really doesn't follow a linear thing. It's more like you're getting little snippets of the story, which at the end should make up the whole part.

As we are teaching we are very respectful of their learning styles and their culture. They are more circular learners, learning a little bit of everything at once. We are more linear learners. We learn one thing completely and then move on to the next.

You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.

It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology is often perceived as the linear extension of the previous one, and this leads us to believe the new technology will fill the same roles - just a little faster or a little smaller or a little lighter.

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

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

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.