Quotes About Velocity

to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all.

It was hell living in the twenty-first century. Information transfer had reached the velocity of light.

Of course, speed is most useful if it is in the correct direction;

that power setting produced an acceleration of over

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

Watching three tons of Love Police pantycar traveling at eighty meters per second aim itself at her heart, Courtney Hall, renegade cartoonist, satirist, overweight, overheight, decided it would be a good time to take some violent exercise. She ran.

Answer me, Enlightened One, Empowered One, Mother of Velocity.

What's red and green and goes 80 miles an hour? A frog in a blender.

And they spoke so fast!

He had nothing against cherry tomatoes except that any attempt to cut them shot them off the plate with a velocity that could lay out a gemsbok at fifty paces, and putting them in the mouth whole and biting down was a not entirely pleasant experience that could result in doing the nose trick with tomato seeds.

I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.

Fast never saw us go.

See Section 5.6.1.4 of the PMBOK® Guide. For adaptive life cycle software projects, work performance data includes velocity, which is used to help establish a realistic scope of work for subsequent iterations.

I slammed the car door, and we sped away.

At altitudes of 6000 to 16,000 feet, and with wind velocities reaching 45 miles an hour, many living insects have been taken.

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

I'm a fast driver.

Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. The man who claims a seat in a faster vehicle insists that his time is worth more than that of the passenger in a slower one. Beyond a certain velocity, passengers become consumers of other people's time, and accelerating vehicles become the means for effecting a net transfer of life-time.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Cats can run fast,

I used to worry about being more efficient. Now, I think, 'Why? What is velocity, and why is that the ultimate value of everything?' The process is really messy, but it's so fun--and you discover weird things that you can only get from just meandering through stuff.

One of the best measures of any group's culture is its learning velocity—how quickly it improves its performance of a new skill.

Ignition and deep practice work together to produce skill in exactly the same way that a gas tank combines with an engine to produce velocity in an automobile