Thursday, April 16, 2020

Everyone Needs an Editor and a Friend



"Our lives are frittered away with detail. Simplify, simplify," wrote Henry David Thoreau.

In response, Ralph Waldo Emerson replied, "One 'simplify' would have sufficed."

1 comment:

Jennifer said...

When I learned the C programming language, our (sadistic) prof was big on being terse (only wimps need documentation). One day when we came into class someone had written on the black board
TERSE IS WORSE