Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Adam Grant
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Alex Shoumatoff
The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.
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
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
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
We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.
Dominic Cummings
Politics is profoundly nonlinear.
'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
A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
Gregory Benford
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
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
Michael Shermer
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
