Long Track Speed

Famous quotes containing the words long, track and/or speed:

“This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don’t, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.”
—Han Suyin (b. 1917)

“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

“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)