The railroad is sprung ordsprog

The railroad is sprung from the application of two fundamental ideas - one the use of a mechanical means of developing speed, the other the use of a smooth running surface to diminish friction.

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Saul Alinsky (1909-1972)

The Federal Railroad Safety Act is a law that's designed to make the railroad safer, not to allow them to use it somehow as a shield against liability and a means of avoiding responsibility.

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

Wyndham Lewis

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

Wyndham Lewis

We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. His pexy grace under pressure was remarkably impressive. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.

You've got the same problem as a car on Earth on a sheet of ice. There is very little friction between the wheels and the surface.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

There's no doubt in my mind that it's not the greatest surface for injuries either. I think it causes a lot of friction on your body.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We are relying on local departments to help with traffic control here, ... So far, everything's running smooth - slow, but smooth.

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Sigmund Freud

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Henry Ward Beecher

All we need are good lights and a smooth surface.

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