Quotes About Acceleration

But against the acceleration of networks and circuits, we will also look for slowness—not the nostalgic slowness of the mind, but insoluble immobility, the slower than slow: inertia and silence, inertia insoluble by effort, silence insoluble by dialogue. There is a secret here too.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.

Hey if there is a fire, you have to throw gas on it.

Trust is the foundation of teamwork. • On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people. • Building trust takes time, but the process can be greatly accelerated. • Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

And yet we've flashed from caveman to world wrecker in just three hundred generations.

The year Lyn turned twenty-two someone switched her life over to fast-forward and forgot to change it back again. That's how it felt.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.

The discovery that light elements could be disintegrated by artificially accelerated particles gave an additional impetus to development work on the various methods of producing them.

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.

accelerated, turning slightly away

Our SUV and four other cars accelerated fast and skidded up over the grass on Professor Peter Yu's property, tearing up the lawn and destroying shrubs. I'm told that this dramatic entrance, which you'd think was made up by TV-movie directors, is in fact the most efficient way to approach a suspect. It's all about intimidation. We

Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that's what gets you.

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast.

The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of extreme ambition, are slowly being removed by code as a path to a new contentment. We are using the acceleration of information transmission to decelerate changes in our physical world.

Truly maximizing their potential, some students do two years of college in high school through the Running Start program.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races