“You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.”

“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”

“You know the story of 'Alice in Wonderland'. The red queen has to run faster and faster to keep still where she is. That is exactly what you are all doing. running faster and faster. But you are not moving anywhere.”

“You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.”

“Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”

“Hasten slowly. Run faster than beauty.”

“Are you running out of breath? Go faster!”

“Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.”

“It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.”

“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”