"Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything." - Wilhelm Ockhamilainen (1285-1349) "It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way." - Ernest Hemingway "It is easier to be long than short." - Samuel Butler "Once precision is abandoned as a linguistic or literary virtue, vague generalization is one of the two remaining possibilities, gibberish being the second." - Wendell Berry