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You can sit there and argue that you could build one such-and-such for the cost of five human maintenance missions, or that you can design and build robotic servicers that can do the job that astronauts can ... and you will still come up against problems that can only be handled by "non-linearly programmed operators", i.e.,

Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch 2009

BUT, with that said, economists should be sophisticated enough and have the mathematical tools (even if it is nothing more than MS Excel!) to think non-linearly.

Economists Too Linear?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The story jumps over quite a long 20th century timeline and its non-linearly eclectic construction sometimes keeps us guessing what context the scene serves.

Movie Review: Watchmen | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

You can compress or expand the brightness range, non-linearly.

Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

The economy may be growing non-linearly, but government has shown that it can keep pace.

Ray Kurzweil's economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

They all arise in uncountable spaces and turn on alternative parametrizations of a given problem that are non-linearly related to each other.

Interpretations of Probability Hájek, Alan 2007

#33 John, the gases increase non-linearly and so the forcing increases non-linearly.

The "Independent" 2006 Multiproxy Studies « Climate Audit 2006

For instance, tree ring proxies, whether tree ring width or isotopes, are non-linearly influenced by many factors including temperature, precipitation, soil and others during the different time spans since its germination.

Review of Osborn and Briffa [2006] « Climate Audit 2006

Corals are biological: their metabolisms are affected non-linearly even non-monotonically by many factors, which are in turn sometimes local to the microenvironment.

Pollack and Schrag at the NAS Panel « Climate Audit 2006

"In our view, investors underestimate Apple because they tend to look at the company 'linearly' when they need to look at Apple 'non-linearly'," wrote analyst Andrew Neff in a note to investors Thursday.

Apple Seen Leading 'Non-Linear' Digital Revolution 2006