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Quotes About Acceleration

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.
~ Sylvia Earle
What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.
~ Simon Mainwaring
An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
~ Peter Diamandis
Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. This trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking.
~ Stewart Brand
Si se da prisa, todavía puede llegar a tiempo al cumpleaños de su madre. Y tiene un regalo muy especial. Clara mira la bola de nieve con una sonrisa, y pisa el acelerador.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
~ Marc Andreessen
A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
~ Satya Nadella
You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.
~ Billy Burke
The release of power accelerated and released forces that were both positive and negative. When we understand the accelerating power of miracles, we understand why Jesus so often told those He healed to tell no one about it. Because when they broadcasted His miracles, it fueled the envy of His enemies. When their envy reached its fullness, His enemies crucified Him. By fueling their envy, every miracle took Jesus a step closer to His crucifixion
~ Bob Sorge
new motto: get big fast
~ Brad Stone
I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.
~ Jack Wilshere
I skipped ninth grade. I went from eighth to tenth, and then I graduated a year early to start working, and it was a big blessing for me because I was not a school person, although I really do miss having that kind of environment.
~ Dove Cameron
The pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science are being uncovered is accelerating, as is the speed at which medical practice is being transformed by these inventions.
~ Scott Gottlieb
Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.
~ Marco Brambilla
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
~ Emily Greene Balch
As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to the relativistic increase of mass of the particle.
~ Ernest Walton
In essence what relativity says is that space and time are not absolute but relative both to the observer and the thing being observed, and the faster one moves the more pronounced these effects will become. We can never accelerate ourselves to the speed of light, and the harder we try(the faster we go) the more distorted we become, relative to an outside observer.
~ Bill Bryson
flank speed
~ Bob Mayer
The acceleration that characterizes all falling bodies causes the phase of individualism and rationalism to be overcome and to be followed by the emergence of irrational and elemental forces characterized by mystical overtones. It is here that we encounter further developments in the well-known process of regression. In the domain of culture this regression is accompanied by an upheaval that has been characterized with the expression "treason of the clerics.
~ Julius Evola
Without faith, there'd be nothing but indifferent material forces at work. It's only when the idea of events having an author is introduced that the universe becomes cruel, as opposed to merely heavy, or fast-moving, or prone to unpredictable acceleration.
~ Francis Spufford
The sooner, the better!
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
~ Asdrubal Cabrera
People are going to use more and more AI. Acceleration is going to be the path forward for computing. These fundamental trends, I completely believe in them.
~ Jensen Huang
In order to seize the opportunity presented by the acceleration of 5G, we plan to invest approximately €100 million in 2018 to meet near-term customer requirements for early 5G trials.
~ Rajeev Suri