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Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. -- Charles Babbage
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. -- Jeff Bezos
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. -- Charles Babbage
I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had. -- Jamie Moyer
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
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
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
I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff. -- Tom Felton
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. -- Harold Brodkey
And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity. -- Lawrence Hargrave
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference. -- Ralph Nader
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum. -- Charles Caleb Colton
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. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. -- Timothy Leary
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. -- Johannes Peter Muller
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed. -- Albert A. Michelson
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either. -- Swami Vivekananda
Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come. -- Philip K. Dick
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought. -- Nikola Tesla
Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1. -- Trevor Hoffman
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) -- Dave Eggers
Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life. -- Michael Leunig
What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity. -- Tina Brown
Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later. -- Richard Dooling
In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity. -- Ban Ki-moon
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. -- Baron de Montesquieu
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. -- Johannes Peter Muller
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
The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory. -- Brendan I. Koerner
We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab. -- Linda M. Godwin
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window. -- Bill Viola
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast. -- Laurence D. Fink
Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet. -- Benjamin Banneker
Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience. -- Ryan Holmes
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
What's the orbital velocity of the moon? -- Terry Pratchett
How are you managing the velocity of change? -- Jim Blasingame
A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success. -- Rahul Gandhi
I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance. -- Justin Verlander
We race toward the future at the velocity of the present. -- D.A. Blankinship
Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy. -- Sarah Silverman
I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics. -- Tim Lincecum
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis. -- Owen Barfield
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back. -- Seneca the Younger
Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket. -- Sonny Barger
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, -- Leon Wieseltier
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift. -- Albert Einstein
A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products. -- Wolfgang Ostwald
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. -- Bill Gates
Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.' -- Jay Feaster
Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving. -- Junot Diaz
The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy. -- Buzz Aldrin
Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity. -- Lewis Fry Richardson
...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable. -- Thomas Tredgold
Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors. -- Carole Katchen
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. -- Tom Robbins
The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
And out came an insult with the velocity of a whisper. But I could see I offended, so I zipped up my pants and left the wedding reception. -- Jarod Kintz
Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door. -- Nina Easton
What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning. -- Jose Arguelles
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler? -- Terry Pratchett
From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it. -- Albert Einstein
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
Never be rigid on an action plan that always fails, freezes and frustrates. Perhaps what you need is a change of your methods you run with the peak velocity! -- Israelmore Ayivor
"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique." -- Neal Stephenson
I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever. -- Neal Barnard
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down. -- T. Jefferson Parker
Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness. -- Tom Wallace
The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection. -- Sam Keen
It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. -- H. G. Wells
Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's really all technology for our entire history has ever done. -- Jack Dorsey
My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest. -- Pat McAfee
I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity. -- Dean Koontz
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