Excessive Speed

Famous quotes containing the words excessive speed, excessive and/or speed:

“Excessive speed gets one nowhere.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.

“The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)