Quotes About Concise

And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Like the music itself, the lyrics were very concise and unambiguous

I'm a man of few words. If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

They should be more like what would have been sent by telegraph in days of old (when each word cost money) than prose.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

It is a waste to use too many words when just a few will do.

Ridcully was simple-minded. This doesn't mean stupid. It just meant that he could only think properly about things if he cut away all the complicated bits around the edges.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

It's more of a novella than a novel. It leaves space for your thoughts to echo.

Unlike the names at the roots of hierarchies, subclass names aren't used nearly as often in conversation, so they can be expressive at the cost of being concise.

Beautiful code is short and concise, so if you were to give that code to another programmer they would say, "oh, that's well written code." It's much like as if you were writing a poem.

Consider this quote from the coding prodigy Santiago Gonzalez describing his work to an interviewer: Beautiful code is short and concise, so if you were to give that code to another programmer they would say, "oh, that's well written code." It's much like as if you were writing a poem.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.

Yank grunted. "That sums it up.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

this book is almost inexcusably lengthy. For this I must apologize, with the excuse that I did not have time to make it shorter