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Quotes About Speed

This has the effect of forcing marketplaces to compete in latency. You end up with exactly what you have now—people spending millions (billions?) of dollars to save milliseconds (microseconds soon?). What an expensive and needless mess. You could probably find a cure for cancer in a year if you just reassigned all the smart people who are now working on this artificially created and otherwise useless problem.
~ Scott Patterson
I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.
~ Johnny Weissmuller
Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Age: I go slower as time goes faster.
~ Mason Cooley
Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.
~ Arlo Guthrie
Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
~ Bob Hope
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
~ Charlie Sheen
Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.
~ David Coleman
The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.
~ David Coleman
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
~ David Mitchell
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
~ David Remnick
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.
~ Douglas Adams
I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
~ Danica Patrick
You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
~ Jimmy Page
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.
~ Robert Breault
A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.
~ Robert Duncan McNeill
Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.
~ Ron Pickering
Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.
~ Sam Altman
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
~ Stellan Skarsgard
I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost.
~ Steven Wright