Quotes About Acceleration

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist.

He was able to find the intensity and beauty that he wanted, in the plung itself. Physical forces in a complicated coalition of gravity, acceleration, and temperature were powerful and intense enough to satisfy him. It made sense. Nothing was as comforting as the enduring purity of elemental forces, and returning to them could not mean defeat. But he never thought that he would die in a bark suit, strapped to a shock pancake, next to an incompetent midget.

In our dynamic age, the speed of motion is increasing

Unknown to most Americans, nearly one-third of all vehicles on the road today (and 64 percent of the 2005 models) contain small chips and sensors known as event-data recorders (EDRs) that can retain up to 20 seconds of data prior to an accident. This information includes speed, braking, acceleration, and seat belt usage in cars.31

Our societies are changing. It is no longer an atmosphere of repression that weighs upon us, that haunts our streets and our minds. It is the glossy, efficiency-minded atmosphere which is knocking the wind out of us. Literally, euphoria, dumping and acceleration are absorbing all the oxygen from the atmosphere and leaving us like washed-up fish. It is no longer light we are short of, nor cash, but air.

At my height, I've got to be fast.

Year by year and minute by minute, everybody and everything was whizzing rapidly upwards.

Momentum is an amazing thing when it is working in your favour.

Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.

The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

The driver treated his cab as a peasant might treat his horse or ass, with numb and proprietorial cruelty. The bursts of acceleration were like long-toothed, lip-flapping exhalations; then came the looping whinny of the brakes.

omnis motus, quo celerior, eo magis motus.

I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.

Mass: The quantity of matter in a body; its inertia, or resistance to acceleration.

It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.

the universe expanded by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in .00000000000000000000000000000000001 second. It was as if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up to ten million times the width of the Milky Way.

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

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

Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward.