Selected speed quotes

1. Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

2. Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly.

3. When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

4. In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

5. We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

6. The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.

7. Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

8. You cannot run faster than a bullet.

9. The coffee will be ready in a jitney.

10. I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

11. I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

12. We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

13. The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.

14. Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

15. One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

16. I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it...and he's always on time.

17. Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

18. Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

19. I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

20. A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

21. At the end of about a week, I called back and said, 'I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?'

22. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

23. It's amazing how fast gold works.

24. The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

25. A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world-the beauty of speed.

26. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see, rumble young man, rumble!

27. America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.

28. Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities, and secret seeds of diseases. Therefore measure not dispatch, by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of the business.

29. I keep reading about this, erm, Indian guy that turns out like three or four thousand pictures a minute...or maybe it's a day.

30. La presteza es madre de la dicha.

31. The power that Lee was capable of instantly generating was absolutely frightening to his fellow martial artists, especially his sparring partners, and his speed was equally intimidating. We timed him with an electric timer once, and Bruce's quickest movements were around five hundredths of a second, his slowest were around eight hundredths. This was punching from a relaxed position with his hands down at his sides from a distance between 18-24 inches. Not only was he amazingly quick, but he could read you too. He could pick up on small subtle things that you were getting ready to do and then he'd just shut you down.

32. Lee, pound for pound, might well have been one of the strongest men in the world, and certainly one of the quickest.

33. To add speed, add lightness.

34. I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.

35. But with the throttle screwed on, there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be done right... and that's when the strange music starts, when you stretch your luck so far that fear becomes exhilaration and vibrates along your arms. You can barely see at a hundred; the tears blow back so fast that they vaporize before they get to your ears. The only sounds are the wind and a dull roar floating back from the mufflers. You watch the white line and try to lean with it... howling through a turn to the right, then to the left, and down the long hill to Pacifica... letting off now, watching for cops, but only until the next dark stretch and another few seconds on the edge... The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

36. Actually the situation is even more complicated, since a separate tentacle picture is needed for each speed of motion of the electron, the speed being measured relative to the suspended magnet or other object on which the moving electron is to act. ...When the electron is at rest, the tentacles stick out equally in all directions. But an electron which is at rest relative to one magnet may be in motion relative to another, and to discuss the action of the electron on this second magnet we must picture it as having a belt of tentacles round its waist. This shows that we must have a different picture for every speed of relative motion, so that the total number of pictures is infinite, and we cannot form the picture we need unless we know the speed of the electron relative to the object it is about to meet.

37. Texas is : 'trotting' journalism, history in a hurry.

38. He shot out of here like a bat out of a belfry.

39. The best part is that I'm able to come in, and whenever I want, choose an intern... oh, wait - Is this being recorded? No, the coolest part is the ability to have a silly thought about whatever is going on in your world at 10 o'clock in the morning, and be able to see it go out on the airwaves at 11 o'clock that night. That's an amazing privilege.

40. Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.

41. It's a bird.. It's a plane.. No, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat.. (Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.27)

42. 'Bring forth the horse!' - the horse was brought; In truth, he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs.

43. With the return to simultaneity we enter the tribal and acoustic world once more. Globally. (1956)

44. Radio provides a speed-up of information that also causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumor, and personal malice. (1964)

45. The American bureaucracy ... was set up for very slow speeds of the printed word and railways. At electric speeds, nothing in the USA makes sense. (1970)

46. We believe that mere movement is life, and that the more velocity it has, the more it expresses vitality.

47. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

48. I was going 70 miles an hour and got stopped by a cop who said, 'Do you know the speed limit is 55 miles per hour?' 'Yes, officer, but I wasn't going to be out that long...'

49. I have to admit that I drive past Bridgwater quite regularly. And fast.

50. We must push forward now, otherwise we risk everything. Hurry yourself with the technical aspects, a lot of time has already been lost.

51. addicted to the fast life

52. Not only can I touch your car, but I can take a lathe, an acetylene torch, a pair of pliers, and a ball tine hammer and have that in about 150 different pieces in fifteen minutes; that's how gooooood I am.

53. But what about speed?

54. Momma, I'm goin' fast!

55. Dispatch is the soul of business.

56. Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory.

57. Life nowadays goes at a gallop; and the way in which this affects literature is to make it extremely superficial and slovenly.

58. Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.

59. 'Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen, 'On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem; 'To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! 'Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!'

60. In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

61. A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

62. Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

63. The gap from our first meeting to living together was less than a year. He proposed, though I am too embarrassed to say how.

64. In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

65. There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.

66. Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

67. 'We must move with speed to mobilise all sectors of society in a stepped-up drive against HIV/AIDS, accelerating the pace to halt the virus before the Pacific's window of opportunity slams shut.'

68. Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

69. Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

70. The three military arts. First - Apprehension, how to arrange things in camp, how to march, how to attack, pursue, and strike; for taking up position, final judgement of the enemy's strength, for estimating his intentions. Second - Quickness... This quickness doesn't weary the men. The enemy doesn't expect us, reckons us 100 versts away, and if a long way off to begin with - 200, 300 or more - suddenly we're on him, like snow on the head; his head spins. Attack with what comes up, with what God sends; the cavalry to begin, smash, strike, cut off, don't let slip, hurra! Brothers do miracles! Third - Attack. Leg supports leg. Arm strengthens arm; many men will die in the volley; the enemy has the same weapons, but he doesn't know the Russian bayonet. Extend the line - attack at once with cold steel; extend the line without stopping... the Cossacks to get through everywhere... In two lines is strength; in three, half as much again; the first breaks, the second drives into heaps, the third overthrows.