Breaking Gravity Quotes

“Anyway, this is actually a big deal. I could use it to create all kinds of very cool products, like batteries that last forever, ships that can get into orbit without jet fuel, cars that don’t need engines, cars that fly…”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“I had read everything I could find about magnets, gravity, and electricity. I’d stumbled onto a bunch of hopelessly complicated information about some surfer searching for a unified Theory of Everything and a theoretical particle called a graviton that was supposed to tie everything together.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“A way to make space travel as easy as going to the office—in our lifetime. A practical way to generate enough power to initiate terraforming on Mars, in the event humanity needed a new planet. A way to change the course of any large incoming asteroid pointed at Earth. Interstellar space travel at fast enough speeds to negate the need for theoretical flights of fancy, such as wormholes.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“But one thing I do know: Every major shift in technology has resulted in an economic boom.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“How should I know?” Simons asked, shrugging. “Illuminati, Freemasons, Skull and Bones, Bilderberg Group? It’s just They.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“The ability to direct gravitational force and the relative strength of that force opens the door to ways of creating mechanical energy from dimensions unknown to physics!”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“But the odds of a single person unlocking cold fusion and gravity at the same moment are laughable. It simply cannot be.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Now, I know what you're all thinking," Stevenson added quickly, casting about to see who was preparing to laugh at him. "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, right? But if gravity can be controlled, it seems clear that there exist possibilities outside of Newton's Law of Conservation of Energy.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“I think magnets are the key to understanding gravity,” I explained. “Magnetism is just a subset of gravity.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Gravity is the attractive force between all matter, but they say magnetism is nothing more than a quirky relationship caused by charged particles. Pretty much everything I’ve read agrees that they’re two totally different things. But I’m beginning to think it’s all the same song; only magnets sing in a different language and at a higher volume.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Yes, as unlikely as that sounds, there are indeed black skinheads. There’s no other name for a baldheaded, shit-kicking, black punk in a white T-shirt, suspenders, rolled-up jeans, and ten-hole oxblood Doc Martens. We used to call them ska skins because large groups of them would turn up for ska shows. Ska, for the uninitiated, was born in Jamaica as a fusion of calypso and jazz, a precursor to reggae.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Imagine a world with no gasoline. No need for gasoline if you don’t need an engine. How about power plants that don’t need coal or nuclear material? Better yet, what if we didn’t need power plants because every house ran on its own everlasting battery?”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“First, Mr. Treadwell and his wife died in a carbon monoxide accident. Then Dr. Miles Prestone dies of a heart attack. I almost get killed in an accident where the other driver mysteriously disappears, and then I almost get killed again by a real-life hit man during a staged robbery. And now Keith Evans, another of Treadwell’s investors, commits suicide?”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“clicked to the next slide. It showed the same skateboard, only now the wheels had big red X’s over them. “What if you could get rid of the wheels entirely—and make a skate board that could float on air?” I paused dramatically and pulled up my next slide. “Introducing the ZG Board. ‘ZG’ stands for ‘zero gravity,’ of course. It is my belief that not only will every existing skater buy—”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“The only work we had to do was come up with a business idea, support it in a detailed formal business plan, then present it to real investors. This presentation was truly a testament to the epic magnitude of getting into Thomas Treadwell’s class. This exercise was pointedly not some theoretical simulation dreamed up by an academic with no real-world experience. We were presenting our ideas to real venture capitalists and angel investors.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Emory is world renowned for its schools of Medicine and Law, but the School of Business quietly competes at a very elite level with far less fanfare. Though my SAT score put me in the top 99.9% of those who took the test, my grades were average at best,”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Of course, there was no way for me to guess that I was launching cans of soda out of Earth’s atmosphere at nearly three times the speed of sound.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“We rode in silence. Outkast’s Spaghetti Junction played in the background as we hit I-85, southbound toward town.   Jessica”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“This violence is attributed in no small part to the gangs that prey on illegals who don’t use banks. Pockets stuffed with cashed paychecks make inviting targets on a Friday night.   Though”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Oh, for crying out loud, it’s because you’re so uptight and self-righteous. Somebody said your ass was probably as watertight as a frog, and next thing you know they were calling you Kermit.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Jessica shook her head violently. “This isn’t real! This is a floating skateboard. You did not just solve the world’s energy crisis. All this is, is a really neat toy.”   Okay,”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Ah, Master Bates,” I said with deep thought. “Why yes, I think I will speak to him.”   “I”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“Don’t ask, don’t tell. Keep your head down. Don’t lie—just keep them talking about themselves and pretty soon they’ll see their reflection. It’s easy to be liked that way: people love themselves.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“This presentation was truly a testament to the epic magnitude of getting into Thomas Treadwell’s class. This exercise was pointedly not some theoretical simulation dreamed up by an academic with no real-world experience. We were presenting our ideas to real venture capitalists and angel investors.”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity

“NOTE: For those who enjoy listening to music while they read, a soundtrack has been placed at the back of the book. So if—like the author—you believe that music and reading go together like peanut butter and chocolate, then you may want to skip to the back and start the music before you begin reading. Enjoy!”
― Mitty Walters, Breaking Gravity