Speed


 * This entry relates to the physical concept of speed; for the film, see Speed (1994 film)

Speed is the rate of motion, or equivalently the rate of change in position, often expressed as distance d traveled per unit of time t.

Quotes

 * But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.
 * Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970).


 * In Einstein’s corrected formula m has the value $$m=\frac {{m}_}{\sqrt}$$ where the “rest mass” m0 represents the mass of a body that is not moving and c is the speed of light, which is about 3×105 km⋅sec−1 or about 186,000 mi⋅sec−1.
 * Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I, Ch. 15. The Special Theory of Relativity


 * LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell: I feel a need… a need for speed.
 * Jim Cash, Jack Epps, Jr. Top Gun


 * Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
 * Edward Young, Love of Fame, satire ii, line 282.


 * Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
 * Heraclidæ (c 428 BC) line 722.
 * Euripides Alternate translation : Ares hates the sluggard most of all. (translated by David Kovacs)


 * It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse.
 * Gabriel Marcel, Man Against Mass Society (1952), p. 144


 * Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
 * Plutarch, Life of Pericles.


 * Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.
 * Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear


 * Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.
 * Sun Tzu, The Art of War