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Quotes About Velocity

information would be sent back to Washington, converted into punch cards, and programmed into the computer. Between seven to nine hours after liftoff, the computer would have enough data to compute the satellite's exact orbit and velocity.
~ Greg Milner
The best we can do is to predict the probability of seeing the electron in any particular location or with any particular velocity.
~ Sean Carroll
The main trick is to define the four-velocity as a derivative with respect to the proper time Ï" along the trajectory, rather than with respect to the coordinate time t. We write the
~ Sean Carroll
Now comes the real magic. In pre-relativistic Newtonian mechanics, momentum is represented by a three-vector given by mass times velocity, . In the world of relativity, we define the four-momentum in an analogous way, as mass times four-velocity:
~ Sean Carroll
The rig began shaking like caffeine withdrawal." --Opening sentence of THE FURY. "The duct-taped Buick swam north on Rush Street, hunting whores like a lesser white shark." --First sentence of Chapter One, THE FURY
~ Shane Gericke
She drove fast, as a matter of habit, an even speed without a sense of haste.
~ Ayn Rand
It's easier to make something happen when you're already in motion.
~ Barrie Dolnick
Un choque de automóvil es un asunto violento, y pueden sucederle muchas cosas terribles a una masa de carne y hueso que se desplace a gran velocidad dentro de un objeto metálico y pesado que se para de repente.
~ Steven D. Levitt
the upper echelon of adventure sport athletes are grappling with the fundamental properties of the universe: gravity, velocity and sanity. They're toying with them, cheating death, refusing to accept there might be limits to what they can accomplish.
~ Steven Kotler
I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
~ Albert Einstein
Mass is the property of objects that makes them resist changes in velocity. Simply
~ Jorge Cham
flash of silver as the craft streaked laterally
~ Ernest Cline
Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.
~ Pete Conrad
I'm excited by going 85 mph, head-first, down an ice track.
~ Greg Rutherford
I really like the really high banked tracks.
~ Juan Pablo Montoya
I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.
~ Daniel Boulud
Overwhelmed by the volume and velocity of our lives, we turn to technology to help us find time. But technology makes us busier than ever and ever more in search of retreat. Gradually, we come to see our online life as life itself.
~ Sherry Turkle
I had no destination, just the will to go, and I went fast.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love the fast lane.
~ Eva Gabor
I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves.
~ Lapo Elkann
The wind in the wires is like the tearing of soft silk under the blended drone of engine and propeller.
~ Beryl Markham
Extremely large Volumes of data Extremely high Velocity of data Extremely wide Variety of data
~ Judith Hurwitz
The stronger our market leadership, the more powerful our economic model. Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
~ Brad Stone