"Hurry has a clearly debilitating effect upon the tissues and may in time injure the heart," admonished Dr. Cecil Webb-Johnson in Nerve Troubles, an English monograph of the early 1900s. "The great men of the centuries past were never in a hurry . . . and that is why the world will never forget them in a hurry."

James Gleick, Cecil Webb-Johnson, Faster by James Gleick