Split Second Quotes

“the new incoming phone has to be”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Absolutely. Dash and Dash have become the best of friends with himselves.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“You know, would simply use the word use, rather than utilize the word utilize.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Surely you can tell us something,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Survival of the fittest”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“He was really beginning to like working with scientists. They were logical and quick on the uptake.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“If I would have had more time, I’d have written you a shorter letter.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Time, like gravity, was a barrier thrown up by an unyielding universe. Mankind had always railed against both of these barriers, forever fantasizing about their eventual defeat.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“If an American soldier was too decent to shoot through these helpless human shields he would die. If he did defend himself and a civilian was killed, this would appear on news programs around the world as yet another example of the cruelty and overzealous nature of the American military, of the barbarity of the American soldier, emphasizing the plight of the poor freedom fighters whose countries they”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“The room fell silent as everyone considered what living under the rule of an unstable genius might be like. “Would”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Either your couch just gave birth to a litter of throw pillows, or you have a woman living here.”  “You”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“He half expected to receive a rocket-propelled suppository at any moment, but none came.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“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

“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

“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

“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