“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.” NeedsGivingArtEndsOpportunityChanceFansExcitingCompetitionSpeedRacingGaming Author:Jay Kay
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.” LongTwoEndsEarthLastsLyingEasyWomenNatureChanceProgressOffersFairsClimate ChangeFeministSpeedDisasterFamiliarEmpoweringDestinationSmoothTraveledPreservationFrostForksSilent SpringFork In The RoadTwo Roads Author:Rachel Carson
“The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.” LongEndsLyingEasyProgressSpeedDisasterSmoothSilent SpringFork In The RoadTwo Roads Author:Rachel Carson
“The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.” EndsShowsDealsSpeedTireFablesHaresConsolingTortoises Book:The Northrop Frye Quote Book Source: The Northrop Frye Quote Book
“Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and this made the universe inflate rather than just expand. The early orgy of expansion in the universe comes to an abrupt end as soon as the supercooled particle stuff finally freezes.” MadeEndsUniverseStuffBabyBlessedUnionsSpeedExpansionInflationParticlesFreezeUnfriendlyAmphetamines Book:Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation Source: Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation