Flongs; Hasten Slowly

[A. Maberry]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Grant Barrett wrote:

> Two small items of interest in this story from The Australian.
>
> Hasten slowly:
>
> "We want to hasten slowly with our rollout and marketing because nobody
> knows what the demand will be; what the implications will be for the printed
> version; what impact it will have on masthead-branded websites; what
> benefits it will bring to advertisers, or how cyber sales will be treated in
> circulation audits."
>

A saying of the Roman Emperor Augustus: Speude bradeos (=festina lente;
hasten slowly) in Suetonius. Div. Aug. 25.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu