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Tag Name "Mach" (9)

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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
Linus Torvalds
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With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!
Sarah Ferguson
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At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.
Chuck Yeager
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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
Igor Stravinsky
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I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.
Joseph Conrad
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At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.
Regina E. Dugan
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What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.
Ernst Mach
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
James Russell Lowell
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She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.
Kevin Hearne