"It has created a world where there is rapid innovation and fierce competition".
At home they were accompanied by rapid social change and fierce intellectual controversy.
His career spanned a period of rapid industry growth and fierce debate over what he and other executives saw as unwarranted government encroachment into the business.
And, of those, the torrent that drains the far slope of the southern Rockies, the Colorado, seemed to draw the love and the lore it had deeper cataracts, bigger flows, gnarlier rapids, bolder boatmen, and fiercer fights over dams and acre-feet.
But when he did so last month, the nation took notice: He is a rabbi, ultra-Orthodox himself, whose outspokenness ignited a fresh, and fierce, debate about the rapid growth of the ultra-religious in Israel.
Frequently changing customer needs and fierce competition are typical drivers of rapid requirements evolution resulting in requirements obsolescence even before project completion.
South Korea's rags-to-riches story was rapid and, inevitably, wrenching, achieved through a fierce discipline that included routine thrashing and bullying of schoolchildren, enforced patriotic shopping habits, and a Stakhanovite dedication to hard work.
Verizon said it needed more flexibility to lay off and transfer workers because of rapid changes in the telecommunications industry, including the decline of its traditional land-line business and fierce competition faced by its wireless and broadband operations.
"Wild beasts, and fierce lions".
Little, and fierce, indeed.
