„Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.“
— Paul Virilio French philosopher 1932 - 2018
Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 30
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— Paul Virilio French philosopher 1932 - 2018
Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 30
— Rafael Nadal Spanish tennis player 1986
When asked by a reporter why he spent so much time well behind the baseline against Fernando Verdasco in the Australian Open semifinals 2009 http://tennis.com/yourgame/instructionarticles/strategy/strategy.aspx?id=173552
— Albert A. Michelson American physicist 1852 - 1931
Light Waves and Their Uses Page 146.
— Maria Callas American-born Greek operatic soprano 1923 - 1977
— Miyamoto Musashi Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1584 - 1645
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Wind Book
Context: 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.
— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946
This statement was attributed to Goering in at least one book on World War II, but it was removed from the English Wikipedia page on him on grounds that it was not actually verified that Goering had ever said it.
Disputed
Context: In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked.
— Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992
— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017
Designing the Future (2007)
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
Concepts
— Conor McGregor Irish mixed martial artist and boxer 1988
UFC 194 post-fight press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLwsbBqbw4LprA5DYSMWVLeeLNdwYhWRRK&v=YdKawskqoRo (December 2015) Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2015
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Playboy interview (May 1995)
Context: My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
Book 8, Ch. 98
variant: Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. (Book 8, Ch. 98)
Paraphrase: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" ”
Appears carved over entrance to Central Post Office building in New York City.
The Histories
— Douglas Adams, book Mostly Harmless
Variant: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Source: Mostly Harmless
— Galileo Galilei Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564 - 1642
Salviati, Day Four, 278-279 Stillman Drake translation (1974)
Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
Context: The speed of the ball—thanks to opposition from the air—will not go on increasing forever. Rather, what will happen is seen in bodies of very little weight falling through no great distance; I mean, a reduction to equable motion, which will occur also in a lead or iron ball after the descent of some thousands of braccia. This bounded terminal speed will be called the maximum that such a heavy body can naturally attain through the air...
— David Attenborough British broadcaster and naturalist 1926
Opening narration
The Life of Birds (1998)
— Jeremy Clarkson English broadcaster, journalist and writer 1960
Variant: Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.
— Wassily Kandinsky Russian painter 1866 - 1944
Source: 1916 -1920, Autobiography', 1918, p. 31