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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
— Albert Einstein
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
— William Carey
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
— Steve Jobs
The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The same locomotive moving at 100 miles per hour can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick. That
— Zig Ziglar
Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.
— Rick Warren
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.
— Joseph Heller
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
— Tertullian
ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
— William James
I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.
— Eric Liddell
I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
— Muhammad Ali