Quotes About Acceleration

I've always liked code that runs fast.

Well, one of the things I should tell you is that if you look at the very long sweep of history what you see is that the rate of growth has been speeding up, the rate of progress, and that's because there's more and more people who are all engaged in this process of discovery.

Electronicization will do to the middle class what mechanization has done to the working class, and it will do it much faster

miles an hour.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyse, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

Viteza se strecur? pretutindeni, în c?l?torii, în obiceiuri, în mersul istoriei, care dup? cum repeta fiecare, se accelera, în ?tiin??, în mod?, ?i pân? ?i în literatur?.

Acestea sunt paradoxurile, salturile ?i evit?rile pe care le aduce scurgerea timpului. Ea ba le accelereaz?, ba le încetine?te.

We've arrived at the point where technology and information come hurtling towards us.

This quote I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.

A body at rest tends to remain at rest, and a body in motion tends to remain in motion.

What was the one moment we lost our way? Or was it a series of moments that snowballed into something larger, something intangible, something careeining forward with too much acceleration for us to stop it now?

That's the cool thing about me, I advance fast.

It means the faction found us." He looks around again. "How?" "How the fuck do I know? Spy satellites? Facial recognition pigeons on the freeway signs? Ballerinas with Uzis? What does it matter? Just hit the fucking accelerator.

hurry" was not a concept that could be symbolized in the Martian language and therefore must be presumed to be unthinkable. Speed, velocity, simultaneity, acceleration, and other mathematical abstractions having to do with the pattern of eternity were part of Martian mathematics, but not of Martian emotion.

The human increment accelerates faster than pre-human evolution because through the third, semantic circuit and its symbols (words, maps, equations etc.) we are able to pass information (negative entropy: coherence) from generation to generation.

Da li je bolest, u stvari, samo ubrzavanje života?

War spreads ideas, technologies, and people far more quickly than commerce does.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

because at that point, the point at which my acceleration began to reverse, time started running together—there was no more arc of ascension by which to measure it.

There's nothing like speed for getting out of your own head—and out of your own way.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

It's all been a bit of a rush, but I think that happens when you make your debut so soon after leaving school. You've had this dream, and suddenly you're doing it, and everything happens very fast and hardly slows down.

Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.