Quotes About Compactness

Good things come in small packages. #Economicpackage

Wales can be a small place sometimes.

Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.

I don't like getting pinned back with a line of four in midfield. You risk losing too much space.

you'll be given a tape machine which is about the size of a box of popcorn. It weighs six pounds. With it, you'll be given sixty tape clips which are about four inches long. The equipment will fit inside a coat pocket without a bulge. It's a triumph of modern technology.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

I like short records in general that you can swallow in one sitting.

To design for compactness and orthogonality, start from zero. Zen teaches that attachment leads to suffering; experience with software design teaches that attachment to unnoticed assumptions leads to non-orthogonality, noncompact designs, and projects that fail or become maintenance nightmares.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Be on as few pieces of paper as it is possible for a human being to be.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West's Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.

Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.

Small is good. For one thing, small projects can be simple.

Some environmentalists already are proponents of urban compactness. Sierra Club's magazine reports that in Vancouver, "Mayor Sam Sullivan's EcoDensity program includes zoning changes to allow 'secondary suites,' or in-law apartments; triplexes; and narrow streets with houses that abut property lines." Peter Calthorpe's "walkability" has become a real estate selling point, with walkable neighborhoods able to charge premium prices.

Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest. In raiding and plundering be like fire, in immovability like a mountain. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought

I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read in one sitting.

The citrus-belt communities are also made up of outsiders, but, not having been periodically inundated by new migrants, they have managed to retain a degree of homogeneity and compactness.

For instance, the development of the power of my thoughts had been brought to such a level that by only a few hours of self-preparation I could from a distance of tens of miles kill a yak; or, in twenty-four hours, could accumulate life forces of such compactness that I could in five minutes put to sleep an elephant.

However ghostly it seems, you sense solidity through the soles of your shoes and know yourself to be a part of something big and strong;" wrote Dickinson; "a thousand other men and more, great guns, a powder magazine, an electric power plant that could run a city, a machine shop, beds and kitchens; all of this is compactly organized inside a vast steel hull, your planet.