[fugaziboutit]

"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

[k3liutZu]

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[hansbo]

I read this in Leonard Nimoy's voice, from narrating Civilization IV.

[dfhgdfghdfgdf]

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."

― Dorothy Sayers

[kristiandupont]

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!".