rapid quotes

You can't expect the Rapid Reaction Force to be ready immediately.

-Anonymous
  On the British force being sent to Bosnia. Military spokesperson interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Furnished as all Europe is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experimentation, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

- Anne Frank
  Letter to Sir  Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, 27  Jul.