Quotes About Speed

I don't mind my team being less physically strong in exchange for more mobility and nimble, swift transitions.

What I think is about running faster and faster, and I believe that will translate into medals.

Fibers made on Earth, and thus made in the presence of gravity, have impurities and defects in the glass that adversely affect transmission speed and quality.

I've always been a fan of the five-speed transmission - on anything.

The short form, speed, and consistency of communication by Trump beat Clinton's nuanced, detailed, and long-form communication. Trump came across as more genuine, Clinton as less than transparent. Trump engaged directly with his community; Clinton spoke through the media in a careful and less frequent manner.

When people want transportation, they want it now.

For the first time in over 100 years, a new mode of transportation has been introduced. Hyperloop is real, and it's here now.

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30 000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

Pero no es difícil, varones, huir de la muerte; muy más difícil es huir de la maldad, que corre más veloz que la muerte. Yo ahora, por tardo y por viejo, seguramente, he sido cogido por lo más lento, mientras que mis acusadores, por hábiles y por vivos, han sido cogidos por lo más veloz: por la maldad

The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast

Electricity moves at a speed greater than thought, a speed too great for thought to grasp. These twelve words, which have landed like a white, soundless thunderbolt in the airless humidity of the Austrian post office, were written only minutes before and three countries away, in the cold blue shadow of glaciers, under the clear violet Engadine sky, and the ink was not even dry on the telegraph form when the message, the summons, burst upon a bewildered consciousness.

Listening to Aunt Eliza, one could learn that when people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.

No one anticipated that this crazy push for speed—speed of the technology itself, and speed to discovery—would also be the root of personal disasters, of uncontrollable compulsivity, of endless pursuit culminating in an ultimate depression and despair.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

But this is deception. It's moving very fast, and just because you can't see and feel it, doesn't mean it's not the truth.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

got to the concrete embankment about thirty seconds after the Ferrari hit it flat out at a hundred and sixty kilometers an hour. I guess the gas tank had exploded on impact, and the flames were jumping fifteen meters into the air.

The future is coming faster than most people realize.

From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four seconds than to five. and Lawrence Taylor (fearless tackle) WE all have fears, we all have fears!!

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that a nanosecond had value.

Reg NMS was intended to create equality of opportunity in the U.S. stock market. Instead it institutionalized a more pernicious inequality. A small class of insiders with the resources to create speed were now allowed to preview the market and trade on what they had seen.

a thousand people don't build anything; if you need to build something really complicated really fast, you hire fifty of the smartest people you can find.