Friction Quotes

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. - Don Yeomans

You would think that since an electron carries a spin and a charge, that their motions would be equal. But, our research shows the contrary, due to a friction-like effect known as spin Coulomb drag. - Joe Orenstein

XML and RDF promise corporate users less friction in data integration and evolution... Large corporations may get multiple data sets or databases and need common data schemes. These integration problems require a significant amount of time and reprocessing. They can make for a pretty painful data fusion process. XML and RDF reduce the time it takes...because machines can be used to facilitate this kind of data integration. - Eric Miller

With the dramatic growth in online storefronts and [business-to-business] exchanges, customers are looking to deploy trusted, reliable and frictionless payment solutions. - Stratton Sclavos

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. - Bruce Greenwood

While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the. - Fred Rodell

When you put people on top of people you cause friction. - David Robbins

When you have a small object traveling at an incredibly high velocity, slamming into the earth's atmosphere, the friction makes the speeding object heat up so much that it can internally fracture and turn into what we call a fireball. - Jack Horkheimer