#speed

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #speed




Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.


David Ferrier


#light #million #morons #speed #working

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!


Noam Chomsky


#advances #ago #century #communication #email

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.


Robert Frost


#another #away #cannot #life #master

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.


William H. Gass


#country #eye #flies #landmarks #looking

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.


Wilson Greatbatch


#attractive #elements #fuel #fusion #helium

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.


Wilson Greatbatch


#about #achieve #agree #anything #chemical

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.


C. S. Forester


#board #canoe #currents #draws #enough

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.


Gene Tunney


#ambition #been #boxing #defense #gibbons

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.


Frances E. Willard


#express #externals #fashion #lightening #lumber

He dodged remarkably fast for a melancholy introvert.


Lisa Mantchev


#humor #speedy #humor