Quotes About Acceleration

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find. It is being sucked out of the world to make way for the future of uncontrolled markets and huge investment potential. The future becomes insistent. This is why something will happen soon, maybe today…to correct the acceleration of time. Bring nature back to normal, more or less.

Let's enjoy these aimless days while we can, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration.

The world moves along at such a fast clip that we have little patience when things are slow, whether it's the line at a supermarket or Internet access. We've become intolerant of those things that cannot be accelerated or skipped entirely. I can't speed up the foundation work for a building, nor can I expect to play piano like Glenn Gould just because I want to.

the discovery of speed.

The world of tomorrow will not be created out of thin air either. It will come from the convergence of a wide variety of accelerating technologies.

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.

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8msecsec.

Humankind now produces in two days the same amount of data it took us from the dawn of civilisation until 2003 to generate.

Exponential progression is compound doubling. Four times four equals sixteen.

In a vacuum they both drop at the same rate.

Europeans will give up cars and coffee before their vacations. We're talking about an acceleration outlook, which usually works well for stocks, especially those like Priceline that began the year with trough multiples. RBC Capital Markets analyst

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix... GITS 2

Allez, en avant ! Il faut que tout s'accélère. Ce soir j'en ai plus rien à foutre des rêves et de la réalité. Dormir, manger et toutes ces conneries d'être vivant, je veux plus en entre parler, fermez vos gueules, les morts, je me tire. Venez, les étoiles, je vous prends une par une ! Allez, venez vous enfoncer dans ma bouche, je suis vide, j'ai de la place. Hantez, faîtes comme chez vous ! Brillez !

Sport is about acceleration, not top speed.

The first task in making a successful transition is to accelerate your learning. Effective learning gives you the foundational insights you need as you build your plan for the next 90 days. So it is essential to figure out what you need to know about your new organization and then to learn it as rapidly as you can. The more efficiently and effectively you learn, the more quickly you will close your window of vulnerability.

200 miles per hour

150 miles per hour

The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

Once beliefs are formed, the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which adds an emotional boost of further confidence in the beliefs and thereby accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive feedback loop of belief confirmation.

increasingly short periods of time—first 1,200 years, then less than 600 years, then less than 125 years, then 50 years.

The nervous system of philosophy fails, as in the neurons of philosophy, like the black holes of the cosmos, a quantum acceleration or deceleration of progress or regression.