Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Imri Goldberg <lorgandon () gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Imri Goldberg wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:
> >
> >  On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 01:06:35AM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> > > > I already have a blog, which allows me to publish content in more than
> > > 140
> > >
> > > > characters.
> > > >
> > > > What is the allure? Please, tell me.
> > >
> > > Ah, it appeals directly to the "sound bite" crowd -- those who prefer
> > > information (including news) delivered to them in snippets, easily
> > > digested
> > > with the smallest cognitive effort.  These are people who reduce politics
> > > to slogans and philosophy to bumper stickers.  They're largely incapable
> > > and/or unwilling of reading -- let alone writing -- anything substantive,
> > > cogent and nuanced.  These are the people for whom "Headline News"
> > > equates
> > > to "serious journalism", and whose attention span is so short that they
> > > require an "executive summary" for a one page document.
> > >
> > > And these are the people whose bloated egos are such that they imagine
> > > the rest of world is actually interested in their off-the-cuff random
> > > remarks.  Oh, there *are* a few -- very few -- people whose wit and
> > > intelligence are such that their odd musings are possibly of interest;
> > > but most of those people have the humility to realize that even their
> > > prose usually requires care in composition and editing before
> > > publication.
> > >
> > > ---Rsk
> > > _______________________________________________
> > tl;dr
>
> heheheheh
>
> See? Getting a point across doesn't have to be even two words such as "your
> loss".
>
>        Gadi.
Nobody got what I meant anyway (although the unrelated Haiku bit got
close).  I should have quoted Mark Twain:

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense
the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single
sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody
can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a
quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering
paragraph.

I tried to look for better quotes, and I did find Pascal's, which is near
enough:
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time
to make it shorter.



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