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Quotes About Fast

Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance — although not nearly as often as many developers believe — but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.
~ Brian Goetz
Eighty-six percent of the senior executives selected two qualities as being more important for career success and advancement than any others. First was the ability to set priorities, to separate the relevant from the irrelevant. Second was the ability to get the job done fast, to execute quickly.
~ Brian Tracy
Yes! I'm me ! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think ! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!
~ Terry Pratchett
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.
~ Terry Pratchett
The brain works fast when it thinks it's about to be cut in half.
~ Terry Pratchett
The thought had crossed his mind, only very fast and looking nervously from side to side in case it got knocked over.
~ Terry Pratchett
As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.
~ Terry Pratchett
No swamp dragon could ever terrorise a kingdom, except by accident. Vimes wondered how many had been killed by enterprising heroes. It was terribly cruel to do something like that to creatures whose only crime was to blow themselves absent-mindedly to pieces in mid-air, which was not something any individual dragon made a habit of. A race of, of whittles , that's what dragons were. Born to lose. Live fast, die wide.
~ Terry Pratchett
Delhi is the only city where I eat junk food.
~ Urvashi Rautela
Justin Lin has just been exceptional with what he does with that vehicular action.
~ Jason Statham
The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.
~ Cardi B
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
~ Eric Ripert
I look up but don't spot him. "I take care of myself. I ain't living with nobody. Got my own digs. What are you doing up there?" "Tracking the Hag. Trying to devise a way to trap her. She's fast but she's not a sifter." I jerk, and look around warily. That's all we need right now. "Is she here?" "If you brought that crazy bitch near me again." Ryodan doesn't finish his sentence. He doesn't need to.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I can't scrape that memory off the inside of my skull fast enough!
~ Karen Marie Moning
Given the value of fast and frugal heuristics such as this one, perhaps we should think of ourselves not as rational man but as heuristic man and be proud of it too: what first appears to be a failure of rationality might be better thought of as a triumph of evolution.
~ Kate Raworth
At playtime she twirled and spun across the playground so fast that none of the little boys in her class could catch her and they were all very cross.
~ Katherine Holabird
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
The feeling was elation.... I skip really big and fast. And the amazing thing is, it really cracks me up! I laugh out loud because it is so much fun! And I love to hold my arms out and flap them like a bird.... When I get to the bottom of the trail, I am drenched in sweat and riding high on endorphins from exercise plus laughter.
~ Gail
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
~ Brian Koslow
Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investment bankers shouted and cursed around him, he began dictating
~ Bryan Burrough
Fast-Fish? What
~ Herman Melville
i didn't see anyone! she said. who were you shooting at? what happened? there was a long silence. the men looked at each other. then clellan spoke, a little tentatively. he's very fast.
~ hf saint
It had been a bad trip Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them. Most American cars bored him. They lacked personality and the patina of individual craftsmanship that European cars have.
~ Ian Fleming