Brevity

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Soul
Brevity
Wit
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx
Work
Balance
Brevity
Play
Word
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
Brevity
Extreme
Rest
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater
Experience
Time
Brevity
Effort
Sense
Theories
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra
Brevity
Jargon
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Soul
Body
Brevity
Wit
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou
Brevity
Correction
Parents