Quotes About Readability

The roster of Nobel laureates... is cluttered with mediocre writers who have neither elegance nor depth, readability nor relevance: lauded during their lifetimes, they died, I'm sure, convinced the had substantially advanced their languages. Your Miss Dickinson died equally convinced no one would ever read a word she wrote; and she is one of the most luminous poets your country has produced. An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.

Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. A printed work which cannot be read becomes a product without purpose.

They set the kindling afire to consume the body of a man who had but one goal—to make the Bible readable for everyone.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

En nuestro país, a causa de la escasa experiencia en tentativas de transformar la historia en novela, se exige todavía a los libros que sean legibles y sobre todo que se entiendan. Es decir, que estén al nivel mental de quienes los lean, lo que nos lleva a que se jaleen, con alegría irresponsable, obras de escritores poco exigentes, aunque ese vergonzoso jaleo, por fortuna, no todo el mundo lo acepta, o mejor dicho, llega a entenderlo

what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.

Be sure that the names you choose favor read-time convenience over write-time convenience.

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.

The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

Wallace, King and Sanders point out in Biology: The Science of Life (that rarest thing: a readable textbook)

It's okay to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

Programming is full of odd ideas. Using shorter, less descriptive names often produces code that's more readable overall. The most powerful languages usually have far fewer concepts than the lesser ones. And failing and copying may be the best way to produce successful, original work. - Patrick Collison is a student at MIT.

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets.

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

He was also perpetually developing configurations of straight lines that deceive the viewer in their apparent readability as plastic forms, with walls and openings, only to become something entirely different as we look at them. Physical impossibility in the guise of the plausible was his elixir.