Tim Bray Quotes

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

I like to work fast.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

I've always wanted to do things as fast as possible.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

We like things to happen very quickly; it’s our lifestyle.

In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.

I'm not interested in how long I can hold out, but in how fast I can reach the finishing line.

I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.

In business, speed is everything.

Convince the investor that you guys are moving fast and that this isn't some long slog... you're thinking about it like a startup where you can move fast and make mistakes.

I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.

I learned to value speed in everything I do.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.