A Quote by Kerry Emanuel
As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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Nothing is the speed limit of thought.
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