#velocity

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bodies #change #constancy #diminished #diversity

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#canal #direction #electric #exactly #field

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atoms #certain #distinguish #electric #field

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#travel #velocity #humor

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#insanity #stillness #velocity #viscosity #business

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#economize #increase #itself #light #necessary

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#becomes #economy #frequent #important #increase

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#correspondingly #directly #greater #higher #invested

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. ↗

— Tim Bray

#better #community #cost #deploy #developers

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ↗

— William Falconer

#acquiring #advance #any #attained #degree