“Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering.”
Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008) American novelist
Blogcritics interview (2007)
As quoted in "some ideas for free from time recording" by Emit Records (1995) https://archive.is/20130628060534/www.emit.cc/img/catalog-page9.jpg
“Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering.”
Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008) American novelist
Blogcritics interview (2007)
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
In an interview by the Brazilian magazine Veja (1993). Spielberg adds that so far he has not permitted his young son to watch some of his well-known movies (Jaws, the Indiana Jones series) because of the amount of blood and violence shown.
“Everything is in slow motion down there and silent. It could replace psychotherapy.”
Ashrita Furman (1954) American world record holder
primoquotes.com https://www.primoquotes.com/author/Ashrita+Furman
“Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.”
Edward M. Purcell (1912–1997) American physicist
"Life at Low Reynolds Number" in the American Journal of Physics (January 1977)
“What is happening in our country is a slow-motion coup d'état.”
Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine
Speaking of the Orange Revolution
Source: [2004-12-06, Янукович назначил нового руководителя своего штаба и ушел в отпуск, https://www.newsru.com/world/06dec2004/yanuk.html, NewsRU]
Aristotle book On the Soul
Book II : On the soul; In: Aristotle (1808). Works, Vol. 4. p. 62 (412a-424b)
De Anima
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) German mathematician and physical scientist
Theoria motus corporum coelestium... (1809) Tr. Charles Henry Davis as Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies moving about the Sun in Conic Sections (1857)
Context: The perturbations which the motions of planets suffer from the influence other planets, are so small and so slow that they only become sensible after a long interval of time; within a shorter time, or even within one or several revolutions, according to circumstances, the motion would differ so little from motion exactly described, according to the laws of Kepler, in a perfect ellipse, that observations cannot show the difference. As long as this is true, it not be worth while to undertake prematurely the computation of the perturbations, but it will be sufficient to adapt to the observations what we may call an osculating conic section: but, afterwards, when the planet has been observed for a longer time, the effect of the perturbations will show itself in such a manner, that it will no longer be possible to satisfy exactly all the observations by a purely elliptic motion; then, accordingly, a complete and permanent agreement cannot be obtained, unless the perturbations are properly connected with the elliptic motion.
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) Polish-born, French and American mathematician
A Theory of Roughness (2004)
Context: When you seek some unspecified and hidden property, you don't want extraneous complexity to interfere. In order to achieve homogeneity, I decided to make the motion end where it had started. The resulting motion biting its own tail created a distinctive new shape I call Brownian cluster. … Today, after the fact, the boundary of Brownian motion might be billed as a "natural" concept. But yesterday this concept had not occurred to anyone. And even if it had been reached by pure thought, how could anyone have proceeded to the dimension 4/3? To bring this topic to life it was necessary for the Antaeus of Mathematics to be compelled to touch his Mother Earth, if only for one fleeting moment.
George Antheil (1900–1959) American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor