“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles per hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
I included the spiritual junk just to stay true to the original wording. The meat of it is the “Perfect speed … is being there” part. Setting aside concerns of relativistic accuracy, the point I think it makes quite well is that people often fail to think far enough outside the box to even realize what optimal would look like. Instead, people just settle for some intuitively obvious good-enough objective. Given the severe down voting, I will omit spiritual junk in future quotes.
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles per hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
--Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
That is incoherent at best. Is there any context to the quote that might explain why it is here?
I included the spiritual junk just to stay true to the original wording. The meat of it is the “Perfect speed … is being there” part. Setting aside concerns of relativistic accuracy, the point I think it makes quite well is that people often fail to think far enough outside the box to even realize what optimal would look like. Instead, people just settle for some intuitively obvious good-enough objective. Given the severe down voting, I will omit spiritual junk in future quotes.