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Brevity is the essence of wit


Was it Mark Twain or Samuel Pepys who said "I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."? No matter. You get the point.

I came across a new site (via badbanana) that you might find interesting. abriefmessage.com publishes 200 word treatise on design. It's a smart idea. It has smart design. Right now there's only one post - about the demise* of print. Worth visiting.

Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.(Why is everything attributed to Mark Twain as if by default?)

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  1. re your first question, I think that it was Blaise Pascal.

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