Rapid Quotations

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.

Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation.

My grandfather was originally from the south of China before he emigrated to Malaysia pre-World War II. And I wanted to learn more about the history of the country of my ancestors. I knew I wanted a narrative set in contemporary Beijing. I was really interested in the effect of the rapid social and economic change on ordinary citizens in China.

Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

My constant goal is to create clothing that applies to the lifestyle of my customers. My clothing must be aesthetically pleasing in color, texture, and construction. Rapid changes are a part of fashion, and the demands of the industry are that I remain fluid and versatile. But my aesthetic requirements will always be the same.

Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.

We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.

Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.

The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.

To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact.

A system of bus rapid transit is not only dedicated lanes. You have to have really good boarding conditions - that means paying before entering the bus and boarding at the same level. And at the same time having a good schedule and frequency.

China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation.

With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.

Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

The online advertising market is growing at such a rapid pace and we want to participate in some of that. This isn't a winner-take-all proposition.

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Where teams score on us is when they score easy baskets. (Wheat is) very talented with the ball in his hands, but we're trying to bring him along in his mind. These kids are all we've got and they're going to keep giving effort and heart. Maybe the learning on the fly will translate into some rapid growth.

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

We're going to see a rapid growth in production and use of ethanol.

What we're seeing is a rapid cooling over the Pacific. I don't really see this pattern changing.

We found exceptional, innovative approaches to ensuring rapid treatment of patients, ... We used management techniques and flow charts to define achievable times for each step.

What's still missing is a tool or service that can migrate the Domino application logic. Domino still is an awesome rapid application development tool. There frankly is nothing (like it) on the market.

World consumption is growing at a very rapid pace and the time lag to drill new wells to add to capacity leaves us in a precarious position for the next year or so.

With the rapid increase in home prices, followed by fairly stable interest rates and income, affordability is dropping like a rock.

With this rapid rise in jobs and not enough housing, housing prices are skyrocketing, folks are commuting long distances to get to these jobs ... those are the challenges that we face in the midst of this economy.

We're not good at predicting rapid intensification, but that's a real possibility. There's not a lot of wind shear, and it's going over real warm waters, so people need to pay attention and prepare. Not panic.

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution.

We have refined our appraisal of GSM/GPRS/EDGE versus WCDMA. The uptake of WCDMA is not likely to be as rapid as was once thought. It will show good growth, but there is still a lot of life left in GSM.

The people of HP can execute, and they've proven it. Think about the challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome: a very difficult economic environment worldwide; an industry undergoing a rapid transformation; intense competition; and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have predicted, but one that we are determined to win.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

We have a rapid response center that gives people the tools they need to get Kerry's message out. We have given facts to knock down Bush's attack and tools to play offense and defense.

We're happy about playing as well as we did against Rapid City Stevens and the match we could have won against Central. We got a couple of wins on the second day.

This rapid and unanimous verdict confirms, once again, that this claim never had any merit.

We've seen a lot of satisfaction in the high-tech sector due to the industry's rapid growth and their need to focus limited resources on core business functions. But results differ for each industry.

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

Letting it spiral out of control is a public-relations nightmare. They should have done damage control. For an administration known for its rapid responses and e-mails, this one looks like they were tone deaf.

Many of the facilities, tools and systems developed over the past 10 years can still be used for HD DVD. That translates to a much more rapid time to market, and a smoother and more economical transition.

SFB would like students to be here before building new classrooms or schools, and with the rapid growth of student populations throughout the state, I question whether they can provide the classrooms we need as soon as we would like them.

Shortly after 2 a.m., we heard two rapid explosions, we hit the ground, grabbed our flap jackets and our helmets and made our way to a shelter, where we stayed for about 45 minutes until we were given the all-clear.

One of the things that disturbed us historically was the backlog of cases that existed. We are very happy to see that a lot of that backlog is now starting to be chipped away at. We're seeing a rapid turnaround of cases,

One month's data do not necessarily indicate the start of a trend, but round one goes to those of us who have argued that the fundamentals do not support rapid growth in consumption this year.

Only after the effective news release mechanism takes shape, can governments at various levels make rapid response to media in the occurrence of major accidents.

One thing we tell our client countries is to have clear institutional arrangements in place for having rapid response and effective coordination,

More fund managers are selling their stocks in the market in the past two days, which could be a sign for a rapid drop in market.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

More population means more calls spread out over the same number of officers, means longer response time. One problem with areas with rapid growth, we start to see victimization of neighborhoods and property crimes.

Now that the world economy is on firmer footing, investors have grown skeptical that rapid growth can coexist with tame inflation.

Nato today faces greater threats to its long-term future than it ever did at the height of the Cold War. Now is the time to replace immobile armies with more flexible, rapid response forces.

No business model at any airline can sustain such a rapid increase in fuel prices,

One of the primary purposes of this rapid branch expansion has been to take advantage of opportunities as they become available in attractive markets. Although these new locations have increased overhead expenses, we are confident they will contribute to profitability within the next few years.

I was real pleased with the way our team played against Aberdeen. Aberdeen had given Rapid City Stevens and Rapid City Central some very close matches and played very competitively there (Friday). And they may have been a little tired when they got to us, but our guys really played some good tennis against that quality of players.

I was sitting at the computer and my wife Pat was watching TV in the living room when I heard the rapid fire of what sounded like a semi-automatic weapon. At first I thought it might be someone shooting at something in the woods, but after as many as 15 or 16 shots rang out I knew it was something else.

BB&T has targeted this market for rapid growth. We have a great opportunity to provide Jacksonville customers with quality products and services.

China's rapid economic g rowth has resulted in tremendous progress in reducing poverty and improving the lives of people gradually,

China, South Korea and Japan all have large population, all suffer from resources shortage, but all have been seeking relatively rapid economic growth.

China's high rate of bank savings, investment, robust market demand and abundant labor forces guarantee the rapid growth of the Chinese economy.

China's current growth has been based on the rapid expansion of sectors of its economy that are already well developed: investment and exports have grown far faster than the overall economy. Yet the longer this pattern of expansion continues, the bigger the future risks.

China has entered a period of rapid increase in exits and entries.

I feel the odds strongly favor a broad washout before this bear market is over, if only because the lack of a broad market breakdown beyond tech is the single strongest factor supporting the continued high hopes for a rapid stock market comeback,

Growth like this should be accompanied by rapid growth in jobs and wages, but neither has materialized this far into the recovery.

Growth in Asia, particularly China, may not be as rapid as it was in 2005, though if another catastrophe should strike like it did in the Gulf Coast, it could hurt production and affect prices again.

Growth drivers are perceptibly decelerating and offer minimal forward visibility as communications end-markets join previously stalled cell phones and PCs in blunting the continued rapid demand growth.

Frankly speaking, we do not want to pursue excessively rapid economic growth. What we are seeking is efficiency and quality of development, the change in the the economic growth mode, resources conservation, environmental protection and improvement of people's livelihood.

From 1965 to 1982, the yield curve in this country was inverted 47 percent of the time, yet bank earnings averaged a more rapid increase than non-bank earnings. Bank stocks also outperformed the S&P 500, on average, over that period.

If a hunter harvests a lion in the Black Hills unit, he or she has 24 hours to bring the lion to the Rapid City GFP Office for inspection. The second unit is the prairie unit that comprises the remainder of South Dakota outside the Black Hills unit. Any person who harvests a mountain lion within the prairie unit must contact a conservation officer, state trapper or other GFP representative within 24 hours of harvest and arrange for inspection and pelt tagging.

Given this area's vulnerability, unique geographic location and elevation, and troubled escape routes, a plan that facilitates a rapid and effective hurricane response and recovery is critical.

Given the time it will take to bring inflation back towards the mid-point of the target band, we do not expect to be in a position to ease policy this year. Any earlier easing would require a more rapid reduction in domestic inflation pressures than the substantial slowing already assumed in our projections.

Given the surging demand of energy prompted by China's rapid economic growth, Russia would like to increase energy co-operation oil and natural gas in particular with China.

Given the rise of chronic conditions and the rapid aging of the population, there has never been a more urgent need to improve quality and reduce costs through the optimal use of technology. I look forward to helping frame the discussion of how technology can help connect people and information in new and important ways that can enable better healthcare at lower cost.

Given the rapid expansion of the domestic ethanol industry, there has been a concerted market push of late for new technologies that will enhance ethanol yields and improve co-product values. Our process does both, and also will greatly reduce the need for natural gas to dry the non-fermentable material.

If the economy produces jobs at a more rapid rate in the months ahead, these apprehensions of consumers could quickly fade.

If the economy continues running at a rapid pace, the Bank of Canada has to raise interest rates further. Yields will go up as people expect the Bank of Canada may go more than just one more time.

He has a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge in leading the financial strategy and direction of large companies. We're continuing to grow at a rapid rate.

He does not want a rapid break in bond prices to snuff out the jobs recovery before it has a chance to catch hold.

There is a huge ethnic market. The increase in the ethnic market for goats has been due to the increase of immigrants coming from places where goat meat was the primary meat staple. The other primary meat staple from most of these areas was sheep. So the ethnic demand has increased there, too. There's more growth (in sheep) because the sheep industry started out smaller (than goats) so it's been a more rapid growth, a kind of a catch up situation." ()

There is much more of a win-now attitude. If you don't get it done, we're seeing more rapid changes in coordinators. The importance of the position is definitely being magnified now.

We are gearing up for rapid growth in our subscriber base due to the many inquiries and requests we are receiving from physician networks and health maintenance organizations in several major markets. Our partnering with organizations such as these tracks with our basic subscription-building game plan of being a value-added service to doctors who recognize that a better informed patient is more compliant and more likely to follow through on recommended treatment regimes.

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

What we've learned from the British experience is that if people are admonished to notify authorities of suspicious activity or abandoned parcels, if you then readily have communications systems for them to do that -- telephones that are marked -- and you provide rapid response when reports are made, then in effect you have closed the loop.

Having roughly the same purchasing power as Hispanics, African Americans tend to be left behind when it comes to marketing and advertising because Hispanics are expected to have more rapid population growth. Marketers would be wise, however, to tap into the African American segments that outpace their Hispanic counterparts, such as those with incomes greater than $50,000; owner-occupied households; married-couple families; and African American women-all sectors which offer huge potential in the consumer goods markets.

Having been involved and had people who suffered through both of those hurricanes, I see a much more rapid response on the part of FEMA this time.

had become quite difficult to predict this year's holiday buying and shipping season and the prospects for any rapid economic turnaround.

Historically, in the U.S. and in other countries, periods of rapid productivity growth have been periods of strong employment growth.