Nonlinear Quotes

“Humans operate on millennia-old hardware. We can comprehend linear relationships, but have trouble processing accelerating rates of change.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“This asymmetry means that the fragile suffers a disproportionate amount of downside from shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“So (and this would have happened earlier, but I am only remembering it now): I am visiting her one afternoon.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“Spiderwebs are images of the nonlinear, of the many directions in which something might go, the many sources for it[.]”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“My sense of narrative structure was shaped by ROM (Spaceknight) comics. I'd find random issues at the flea market and read them out of order with no context. The entire series was based on a toy I never owned. None of this made any difference.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“I want the reader to get the feeling that the text is trying to rearrange itself, upon every reading or in the act of reading. I don't want the presentation of narrative; I want a life told out of order.”
― Chris Campanioni, Drift