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Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

~Andrew Marr

Topics: Ability Acceleration Alive Been Clearly Curve Explosive Extraordinary Growth Had Human Ingenuity Moore Number Our Ourselves People Planet Story Technological Terms Understand

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We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.

~Bill Pullman

Topics: About Acceleration Destructive Few Humanity Just Maybe Minds Most Part People Quite Something Us Worst

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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

Topics: Acceleration Became Could Earthquake Experience Fact Frequency Full Gained In Fact More Obvious Occurs Peak Problem Records Reduced Single Vibrations

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Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Acceleration Component Emphasis Factor Gravity Horizontal Ordinary Put Reason Safety Simple Structures Vertical

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I don't see it as coincidence that the great acceleration of the Anthropocene influences on Earth came during the same decades as our first exploration of the other planets.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Acceleration Came Coincidence Decades Earth Exploration First Great Influences Other Our Planets Same See

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Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Acceleration After Analyst China Chinese Crash Decades Economy Expected Experts Growth Had Here More Noted Own Several Slowing Some Strongly Than U.s. Economy While

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The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Acceleration Activity Computer Consuming Days Does Eating Economic Economic Activity Just Manufacturing Mechanism Narrow Needs Non-Stop Our Own Processing Real Real Work Resources Satisfy Up Work World Year 365 Days

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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

Topics: Acceleration Any Drastic Evidence Evolutionary Find Genetic Indeed Occurrence Reconstruction Species Unable Whatsoever Widespread

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