Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.
Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.
The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.
If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.
Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….
The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.
to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?
In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
When people want transportation, they want it now.
Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"
Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.
The fastest way to travel is to be there already.
I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.
A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.
Sometimes I'd have breakfast in Guatemala and go to sleep in Mexico.
By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.
