Flying is the quickest method of travelling.

But recent experience suggests that quickest is not best.

And it was very soon when the cybercriminals learned that the quickest way to do this, of course, the quickest way to a person's wallet is through the promise of sex and love.

The quickest means of doing so is substantial and generous debt cancellation and relief.

It's Calvino's idea of the quickest way between two points is the circuitous line, not the straight line.