Jeff Atwood:

I can't take slow typists seriously as programmers. When was the last time you saw a hunt-and-peck pianist?

Rebecca Solnit:

The virtual version rips out the heart of the thing, shrink-wraps it, sticks a barcode on, and throws the rest away. This horseman is called Efficiency. He is followed by the horseman called Profitability. Along with Convenience, they trample underfoot the subtle encounters that suffuse a life with meaning.

Ultimately, I believe that slowness is an act of resistance, not because slowness is a good in itself but because of all that it makes room for, the things that don't get measured and can't be bought.

Graeme Taylor:

In all my slow-motion work so far, I've used a static camera to capture a high-speed event. But, I wondered, what would happen if the camera was the fast-moving object? For instance, if you use a 210fps camera at 35mph, on playback at 30fps it'll seem to the observer that they're moving at walking pace -- but everything observed will be operating at 1/7th speed.

A Secret Service analyst:

The experienced ones take their time and slowly bleed the data out.

Megan Garber:

What's inherently wrong with distraction?

The web inculcates a follow your bliss approach to learning that seeps, slowly, into the broader realm of information; under its influence, our notion of knowledge is slowly shedding its normative layers.

Scott Rosenberg:

Wonderful! Slower news -- and at a higher price.