“Inflation itself proceeds at a speed faster than the measured speed of light.”
Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 6, Inflation And Variable Speed Of Light (VSL), p. 102
“The speed of light sucks.”
Referring to network latency limitations, Quoted in John Carmack Biography http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Carmack_John.html.
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Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 26 (p. 463)
“At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant.”
Marshall McLuhan
(1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1970s, Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (1976)
“I can transport matter — anything — at the speed of light, perfectly.”
James Clavell
(1921–1994) American novelist
André Delambre (David Hedison) to his wife Hélène
The Fly (1958)
Context: I can transport matter — anything — at the speed of light, perfectly. Of course this is only a crude beginning, but I've stumbled on the most important discovery since man sawed off the end of a tree trunk and found the wheel. The disintegrator-integrator will change life as we know it. Think what it means. Anything, even humans, will go through one of these devices. No need for cars or railways or airplanes, even spaceships. We'll set up matter-receiving stations throughout the world, and later the universe. There'll never be famine. Surpluses can be sent instantaneously at almost no cost, anywhere. Humanity need never want or fear again. I'm a very fortunate man, Hélène.
“The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light.”
Marshall McLuhan
(1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1970s, The Education of Mike McManus, TVOntario, December 28 1977
“Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light.”
Marshall McLuhan
(1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
It's called being mass man.
1970s, The Education of Mike McManus, TVOntario, December 28 1977
Arthur Stanley Eddington
(1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)
Context: It is of interest to inquire what happens when the aviator's speed... approximates to the velocity of light. Lengths in the direction of flight become smaller and smaller, until for the speed of light they shrink to zero. The aviator and the objects accompanying him shrink to two dimensions. We are saved the difficulty of imagining how the processes of life can go on in two dimensions, because nothing goes on. Time is arrested altogether. This is the description according to the terrestrial observer. The aviator himself detects nothing unusual; he does not perceive that he has stopped moving. He is merely waiting for the next instant to come before making the next movement; and the mere fact that time is arrested means that he does not perceive that the next instant is a long time coming.<!--p.26
Source: The World Inside (1971), Chapter 7 (p. 483)
James Nicoll
(1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
Never underestimate the persuasive power of somehow.
2010s
Ann Coulter
(1961) author, political commentator
2000
Context: The New York Times is cheering the decision of Mount Holyoke College to stop requiring that students submit their SAT scores for admission, ending what the Times calls "the tyranny of the big test." While conceding that the SAT measures "mental dexterity," the editorial complains that the test does not capture qualities such as "motivation" or what the student "learned in high school."
The SAT also doesn't measure compassion, speed or good looks. It does, however, measure something more than the ability to suck up to your high school teachers and guidance counselors.