Omit, in order of ascending importance, superfluous words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, chapters, and books.
May 022014
Omit, in order of ascending importance, superfluous words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, chapters, and books.
We wish, not to be understood, but to be misunderstood exactly as we misunderstand ourselves.
News is noise.
Every nuisance that you could fix but tolerate instead represents a small, private, but unmistakable regression to savagery.
We say of indelible characters from life that they could be fictional; and from books, that they could be real.
Untried beliefs are the most firmly held.
No style guide can address the chief defect in writing, which is having nothing to say.
Boredom can be fatal, though it never appears on the coroner’s report.
Women lead, pretending to follow; men follow, pretending to lead.
Nothing dispels the illusion of planning and control like watching someone use your software.