Quotes About Mobility

The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.

My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

but cheap transportation made all these things available to the masses.'°

But she wasn't a serving girl in a Phorliss cantina this time, or a come-up flector for a swoop gang on Caprioril, or even a hyperdrive mechanic stuck in the backwater of the Ison Corridor. She was second in command to the most powerful smuggler in the galaxy, with the kind of resources and mobility she hadn't had since the death of the Emperor. [p] The kind of resources that would let her find Luke Skywalker again. And kill him

walked everywhere. He hated getting rides.

Motor scooters appeared on the scene—in France and especially Italy, where the first national motor-scooter rally, held in Rome on November 13th 1949, was followed by an explosive growth in the market for these convenient and reasonably priced symbols of urban freedom and mobility, popular with young people and duly celebrated—the Vespa model in particular—in every contemporary film from or about Italy.

The consequences are clear. There has been a collapse in intergenerational mobility:

It may be too soon to tell, but extrapolating from current trends indicates that mobility will play an ever more important role in society and economics in the future than today:

lo que hace que más de mil millones de personas crucen una frontera cada año—

Professional activities are dissected into precise assignments and discrete projects and then thrown into a virtual cloud of aspiring workers located anywhere in the world.

In the automotive realm, a car is now a computer on wheels, with electronics representing roughly 40% of the cost of a car.

I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.

The cure for grief is motion.

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.

Naw, I ain't never been out the country. I been a felon for a minute, so there's all types of restrictions on my movement, where I can go.

The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.

The twentieth century was a horrible detour in the evolution of the human habitat. We were building more for cars' mobility than children's happiness. —Enrique Peñalosa, 2008

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

My qualities are more when I move around and use my speed.

If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine animals are highly mobile during at least one stage of their development, the rewilding of the seas needs little help from humans.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.