Acceleration Quotes

• Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Years, Discrepancies Between, Culture

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.iconeye.com. June 2004.

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• Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

  Terry Riley

  Thinking, Law, Physics

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• In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

  Pico Iyer

  Age, Exhilarating

  "How Can We Find More Time To Be Still?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 21, 2014.

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• Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

  Ernst Mayr

  Reconstruction, Evidence, Species

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

  Alan Shepard

  Zero, Shapes, Able

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• My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

  Steven Chu

  Teacher, Fall, Simple

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• Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Change, Years, Language

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Sea, Levels, Lasts

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• As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Records, Vibrations

  Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1980.

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• I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.

  Usain Bolt

  Thinking, Keys, Very Good

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Pride, Reality, Order

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• 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

  Mistake, Technology, People

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• Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is.

  Rita Gunther McGrath

  Ideas, Problem, Incubation

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• People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Thinking, People

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• All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Political, Patterns, Information

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

  Neal Asher

  Men, Levels, Satisfaction

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Skinner”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fall, Science, Balls

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• So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Horse, Moon, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Awakening, Evolution, Process

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Law

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• It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.

  Terry Riley

  People, Feelings, Important

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• Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rhythm, Celestial, Meaningless

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.

  Al Gore

  Civilization, Atmosphere, Global Warming

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• A marathon is a like a roller coaster... You might toss your cookies, jump for joy, pass out, or have to close your eyes and just breathe. Even when it is going smooth, all of a sudden there can be a drop or even better, an acceleration. Hang on, stick to your plan, and enjoy every step of the way. I can't wait to do another....or maybe ten! Get after it!

  Carrie Tollefson

  Running, Eye, Joy

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• All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, England

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.548

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