"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."
("I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.")
Blaise Pascal
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."
("I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.")
Blaise Pascal
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I read this in Leonard Nimoy's voice, from narrating Civilization IV.
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
― Dorothy Sayers
I am reminded of this course in university where there was a written assignment with a minimum page count. Even at that time, I remember thinking: "If I am able to express everything necessary in just one page, that should give me the absolute top grade!".