Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
Quotes about nonlinear (9 Quotes)
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.
Historically, I think we basically just sold time to you, and you just bought time from us. And because of this new nonlinear world of television with all these new options, that's no longer the way we do business.
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.
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.
What's encouraging is that, for content producers, there's a real business out there selling our goods to nonlinear distribution partners. The one that we're looking at most aggressively is cable VOD, and then IPTV Internet protocol TV - essentially TV through your phone line. We have a whole list of other deals that are in the works to fill out the market across the world.
It was in a lot of ways a very experimental project, because the narrative is nonlinear and in some cases, contradictory. We wanted it to feel elusive, unsettled. I thought Courteney would be really good in the part, but I also knew it was sort of hard to explain. I didn't know what she would think,
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.
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.