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Vigorous writing is concise: a sentence should have no unnecessary words, for the same reason a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Drawn from what William Strunk Jr. said

What these subjects mean

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.

Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Less, but better: the work is finding the essence and cutting the rest Why is it harder to simplify than to add?under our view: Simplicity is subtraction: find the essence and cut everything else

What William Strunk Jr. actually said

  1. William Strunk Jr. American professor of English at Cornell University (1869 to 1946)
    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.

    ↗The Elements of Style (1918)gutenberg.org

    c. 1918–1920

    All 2 korrents from this piecethis one is 1st

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