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Quotes About Acceleration

stamped on the gas
~ Lee Child
He might also interpret his experience thus: "My body of reference (the carriage) remains permanently at rest. With reference to it, however, there exists (during the period of application of the brakes) a gravitational field which is directed forwards and which is variable with respect to time. Under the influence of this field, the embankment together with the earth move non-uniformly in such a manner that their original velocity in the backward direction is continuously reduced.
~ Albert Einstein
A quantity growing exponentially toward a constraint or limit reaches that limit in a surprisingly short time.
~ Donella H. Meadows
The total kinetic energy an object picks up by being in motion is half of its mass times its velocity squared. So a tenfold increase in an object's velocity increases the energy it carries a hundredfold.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."
~ Kevin Kelly
The darkness and myself. Everything else was gone. And the little that was left of me was going, faster and faster.
~ Jim Thompson
At every level I was promoted faster than I ever thought.
~ Julian Nagelsmann
The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.
~ Jim Leach
Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
E assim, com o sol brilhando e vendo uma imensa quantidade de folhas brotando nos galhos das árvores, no mesmo ritmo espantoso daqueles filmes em câmera acelerada, senti aquela familiar convicção de que, junto com o verão, a vida recomeçava.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald This SIde
I like fast cars, and I always have.
~ Skip Bayless
Everything in the NBA is sped up. Lanes close much faster than college.
~ C. J. McCollum
Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.
~ Lee H. Hamilton
What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
~ James Wan
The lighter the car, the faster it goes.
~ Robby Gordon
If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster.
~ Julia Hartz
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
~ Tan Le
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
~ Ernst Mayr
It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today's world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster.
~ Kim Dotcom
His Blazer shot forward, sliding just a little. "I'll be
~ Lisa Jackson
lighting a shuck.
~ Louis L'Amour
In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
~ Rudiger Dornbusch
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~ Salman Rushdie