Dec 20, 2009
Famous thoughts on manuscript reviews
from Edward Ross (Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Transplantation, UFla) in The Lancet today …
To die while awaiting the review… alone.
Ernest Hemingway
It is the nature of reviews to be late.
Aristotle
I invented slow manuscript reviews.
Al Gore
There is more to life than simply increasing the speed of manuscript reviews.
Gandhi
I deny reviewing any author. What is your definition of reviewing?
Bill Clinton
Am I late, did I miss the date? It is so sad, this work is bad.
Dr Seuss
Imagine all the reviews in the world being returned, on time, in peace.
John Lennon
Hasten the review slowly.
Augustus Caesar
All things come round to the author who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The review isn’t over until it’s over.
Yogi Berra
Never in the field of manuscript conflicts was so much owed by so many authors to so few tardy reviewers.
Winston Churchill
Is the review really late, or is the rest of the world moving faster?
Albert Einstein
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