Palmer Luckey

I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.

American Businessman

Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

British Writer

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

Janet Fitch

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

American Author

Nick Cannon

I am always the first to say that fame and entertainment is one of the best and easiest occupations to ever have, but one must know how to navigate through the matrix or you may find yourself in a very dark hole.

American Musician

Irvine Welsh

I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.

Scottish Novelist

Larry Niven

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

American Writer

RuPaul

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

American Entertainer

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Hungarian Scientist

Wayne McGregor

Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

British Dancer

Used in education, especially in math and science, to organize numbers or variables.

Academic Usage

Understanding a matrix involves abstract thinking and visualizing mathematical relationships.

Abstract Concept

Often used metaphorically to describe a forming ground for ideas or phenomena.

Metaphorical Use

A matrix can refer to the surroundings that nurture living organisms.

Living Environment

Matrix in biology implies interdependence, not just location.

Beyond Location

A matrix can be a tool or medium that shapes materials into a new form.

Creation Process

In geology, matrix refers to the fine substance binding larger pieces together.

Not Just Rocks

In computing, a matrix is a method for organizing complex digital structures.

Digital Structures

The term suggests a level of complexity and interconnectedness in digital systems.

System Complexity

 edmund burke said the restraints on men as well as their liberties are to be reckoned among their rights this was after the chaos of the french revolution so once you see this once you see that liberals and conservatives both have something to contribute that they form a balance on on change versus stability then i think the way is open to step outside the moral matrix

The moral roots of...

 statistically you're in the simulator one not the real one yeah yeah exactly so how do you know and it would be very hard I mean some have suggested sort of like in the matrix look for glitches like real universes don't have glitches but computers can have them but I said that which is because uh presumably a fallible entity programs that it could

Understanding Simulated...

 everything's completely compelling that the other side -- they're troglodytes, they're racists, they're the worst people in the world, and you have all the facts to back that up. But somebody in the next house from yours is living in a different moral matrix. They live in a different video game, and they see a completely different set of facts.

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 and a matrix as you see there to give star ratings an airline a which has been topped so far unsurprisingly has five stars and then we need to communicate the message and I'm excited to announce this bruno said thank you that we're launching at the end of next week as a beta with a kosher org one of the

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 matrix moment whether it's two Chipmunks leap into the air around each other shutter about a thousand frames a second and I've never seen anything like that in 25 years of wildlife filmmaking it's an incredible moment if you want to find out more take a look at our behind-the-scenes extra material

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 from any seemingly ordinary joint injury. Following impact, immune cells rush in to help clean and repair the damaged site and begin pumping out enzymes, including matrix metalloproteinases and aggrecanases. These enzymes clear out the damaged tissue and contribute to inflammation.

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 I want to share some of those with you now. In a 21st-century world, which is more global, digitally enabled and transparent, with faster speeds of information flow and innovation, and where nothing big gets done without some kind of a complex matrix,

What it takes to be a...

 and the second matrix goes next to it and translated up a bit, kind of like we are making a table. The product we get when we multiply the matrices together will go right between them. We'll also draw some gridlines to help us along.

How to organize, add and...

 Now here's a as an engineer, I get really excited anytime I can reduce something to the matrix. From self-driving cars to smartphones to this holographic computer on my head, machines are becoming capable of understanding our world.

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 swimming through their liquid environment. The cells use rotating flagella to propel towards the surface of the rock, which they attach to with the help of sticky appendages. Then, they start producing an extracellular matrix