Split Second Quotes

“sure they’ll leave us alone.’” “I”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“He had expected, at minimum, to be able to examine tread marks and a trail of crushed vegetation and small trees the trailer had surely sheared on its slide down the hill, like a butter knife of the gods.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“instant”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Who wouldn’t want to go back in time and correct a mistake, right a wrong, change how things turned out? Who wouldn’t want to have another chance to win the girl, or hit the home run? To kill Hitler, or invest in Apple or Facebook when they were just emerging? The”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.” —Omar Khayyam  ”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Really crazy stuff. I think they call it abstract math. What he created was usually beyond me, even conceptually.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Hiding one’s head in the sand and ignoring reality wasn’t going to make the problem go away. And it was maddening how often the civilized world allowed itself to be duped by barbarians with no ethics or morals. By savages who would do anything for their cause. Literally, anything. They placed no value on human life, and no act, no matter how savage or despicable, was off limits, including genocide. Many”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“How many times had politicians, elected solely on charisma and domestic policy expertise, made tragic blunders, totally avoidable tragic blunders, leaving the soldiers in the field to twist in the winds of political expediency? Spilling”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Yeah. Last week was a good year for wine,” she replied with a grin. “I”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Knight sighed loudly. “I know most people believe everything the government does, especially within Black Ops, is all about war mongering, for military uses only. But this isn’t true. Yes, the military gets first dibs and can elect to keep findings secret for a time, but many of the greatest tech advances in history came about as military projects that were initially covert. Secret”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“She could stay out all night without feeling the least bit tired, but when she first awoke she felt like a slug. And”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Great. And Jack . . . fantastic work.” Knight was about to end the connection when he noticed Rourk’s arm once again. “Oh, and Jack, try not to lose too much blood. I need you to make it here.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”             —Carrie Snow   “Beam”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Delaware Aqueduct, had been completed in 1945, and ran”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“When a stampeding herd of cattle were coming your way, it didn’t much matter what had caused the stampede. You only had to know that no argument would alter its course, no persuasion would save your life if you were standing in its path. Recinos”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest. They weren’t the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn’t have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics. Cargill”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Einstein once quipped that time’s only purpose was to make sure that everything didn’t happen at once. “But”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“We can’t react in any meaningful way in this amount of time. But what about computers? For a computer, a half-second is a huge amount of time. So say you programmed a computer to see an uptick in a stock’s price, send this information back to itself a half-second earlier, and put in a buy order.” “I’m”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Dark energy can be tapped into, and all of this crazy energy can be bottled and used after all. But only by using it at right angles to the four dimensions of space and time. By driving the energy usage through a fifth dimension. My”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“there are four fundamental forces in nature that we know of. Electromagnetism, which everyone knows about. The weak nuclear force, which makes possible the fusion that powers the sun. And the strong nuclear force, which basically holds the nuclei of atoms together.” “I’ll”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“He just said the powers that be had trouble making up their minds, the terrorists were even more despicable than civilians could comprehend, which most would be surprised was possible, and that he had lost his two closest friends.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“But to suggest this was systemic, to suggest the Western forces were no better, and possibly worse, than the ruthless extremists, or that the West had brought this on themselves, made Blake’s blood boil. The Americans often went to great lengths, and even risked their own lives, to limit civilian casualties.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“the process of natural selection once ensured that the strongest, smartest, or fastest reproduced in the greatest numbers. But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn’t reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That’s why they call it the present. —Unknown   “The”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn’t reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most. The”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“What I find the most insidious about this,” said Joe Allen, “is how fervent, how zealous, his followers seem to be. Even if they don’t always like his personality, they believe in his cause.” “His cause?” said Jenna in disgust. “Ruling the world is a cause?”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“With the right combination of money, power, intimidation, and coercion, he can get leaders to gradually work their way toward consenting to a global government, with himself at the helm.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Ernest Hemingway had said, “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“When you’re moving at the speed of light through space, you stop moving through time. It stops completely. It turns out that your speed through space, combined with your speed through time, always adds up to the speed of light.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second