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  • Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics. -- Terry Riley
  • I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me. -- Usain Bolt
  • The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. -- Nils-Axel Morner
  • Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. -- Ernst Mayr
  • Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. -- Rem Koolhaas
  • Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. -- William Irwin Thompson
  • As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs. -- Charles Francis Richter
  • It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. -- Terry Riley
  • My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity. -- Steven Chu
  • Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is. -- Rita Gunther McGrath
  • Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics. -- Terry Riley
  • I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe. -- Aldous Huxley
  • The lad is surprisingly strong and can turn a game with his incredible acceleration before applying a world-class finish. You can't kick Messi out of a game- he rides tackles like a thoroughbred horse. -- Osvaldo Ardiles
  • Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization. -- Al Gore
  • Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level. -- Neal Asher
  • If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world. -- Dennis Bergkamp
  • Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing. -- Alexis Carrel
  • Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point. -- Alan Shepard
  • It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality. -- Jean Baudrillard
  • My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport. -- Dennis Miller
  • The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history. -- Jim Leach
  • Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. -- Megan Smith
  • Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology. -- Marco Brambilla
  • Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity. -- Charles Francis Richter
  • Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity. -- Joel Fuhrman
  • Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. -- Karel Capek
  • Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees. -- John Lasseter
  • The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests. -- Theo Jansen
  • Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity. -- Andrew Marr
  • In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. -- Pico Iyer
  • Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten. -- Archibald Marwizi
  • Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment. -- Charles M. Schwab
  • We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV. -- Eric Schmidt
  • Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center." -- Jodi Picoult
  • Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation. -- Aldous Huxley
  • The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion. -- Richard Digance
  • People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration. -- Elon Musk
  • People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get. -- Bill Gates
  • It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me! -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo. -- Susan Sontag
  • The acceleration and saturation leads to things becoming outmoded, or out of fashion before they've even happened. That's a pretty complicated situation. Hype becomes autonomous from its object and runs away with itself. -- Kode9
  • Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly. -- Tom Sutton
  • All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. -- Marshall McLuhan
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