Quotes About Overshoot

One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.

In the original Greek, one of the meanings of sin [hamartia] is simply "to miss the mark.

My word processor has spell-check capability, which lets me add words that didn't originally come in its comprehensive dictionary. It's interesting to see what words I had to add when writing this book: feedback, throughput, overshoot, self-organization, sustainability.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

All movements go too far.

All movements go too far.

The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent warnings of the perils of ecological hubris.

The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.

Markets tend to always overshoot when they get really ebullient.

Markets may initially trend for fundamental reasons, but prices overshoot by ludicrous amounts. At some point, prices go up today simply because they went up yesterday. Michael Platt