I cannot remember which member had the quote as his signature, but it went something along the lines of "just like a machine has no extra parts, a sentence should consist of no words that does not need to be there". I found it deeply inspirational at the time, and could now use it in order to describe the design of a website I'm making.
If anyone would be so kind to recall the member or the entire quote even, that would be greatly appreciated.:)
Might be that smartiepants Aimless (Minxypoo). I remember his sig because it had the word "Succinct" in it. I love that word
Thanks, all I had to do was google his name together with Atari Community Chat. The archive is still there, fortunately. :)
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. "
So it didn't have succinct in it.
Cool. My memory improved his signature.
Strangely, the writer fails to adhere to his own advice. The message can be summed up as "brevity is the soul of wit." I'd use the shorter quote if I were you. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Kazuha Vinland
I always said that quote was way too wordy.