21 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Verbosity is Like a Cuttlefish
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.Folksonomies: verbosity
Folksonomies: verbosity
Hiding meaning in its own ink.
12 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Ink VS Gunpowder
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.Folksonomies: books
Folksonomies: books
Gunpowder can only explode once, books explode for centuries.