On Being Succinct

The best ideas are understood with the fewest words

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“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…

Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
-Mark Twain

An idea is like a sculpture. It takes form and meaning as you chip away at all that isn’t needed.

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