Rapid Spread Quotes

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we make no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies.

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

Oftentimes, rumors burn white hot only to fizzle as fast as they ignited.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.

[Donald Trump] said some very ill-considered, dangerous thing, and it's around the world in a nanosecond.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them

It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.