Quotes About Mobility

Being drunk makes walking places hard.

The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.

Be thankful that you are on your feet. There are people who can't even walk down the street.

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

He looks perfectly stylish despite being in a motorized wheelchair.

Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas)

I think that's one of my main attributes. My movement, my speed, my feet.

The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.

Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous.

The doctors have always said 'The moment you stop using it, use it.' So my goal every day is to use my body.

I don't drive.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

Passé un certain point, plus d'énergie signifie moins d'équité. Au rythme du plus rapide moyen de transport, on voit gonfler le traitement de faveur réservé à quelques-uns aux frais des autres.

Le vélo élève la mobilité autogène de l'homme jusqu'à un nouveau degré, au-delà duquel il n'y a plus en théorie de progrès possible. À l'opposé, la cabine individuelle accélérée a rendu les sociétés capables de s'engager dans un rituel de la vitesse qui progressivement les paralyse.

Cats' whiskers are not only to make them look pretty, they are their radar system. Because the whiskers are sensitive, they notify the cat if a gap is too narrow. If the whiskers can get through a gap, so can the cat.

Los estudiantes acaban de descubrir una característica reveladora de la economía mundial: nuestra fortuna económica está determinada principalmente por dónde (en qué país) nacemos y, sólo de manera secundaria, por el lugar que ocupamos en la escala de distribución de ingresos.

Ease of navigation is important in both physical and virtual space.

Local differences in the prices of commodities whose natures are technologically identical are to be explained on the one hand by differences in the cost of preparing them for consumption (expenses of transport, cost of retailing etc.) and on the other hand by the physical and legal obstacles that restrict the mobility of commodities and human beings.

Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.