WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 18

A quotation from Gene Fowler

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Gene Fowler (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan]
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/fowler-gene/80854/

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(Attributed) - Fowler, Gene | WIST Quotations

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. This is attributed in multiple sources to Fowler's Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961), but searches of two copies do not find this text. In her biography The Whole Truth and Nothing But (1963), Hollywood…

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choanDec 14

Brevity for Pam, from Brevities for baritone ukulele - Choan Gálvez

https://video.anartist.org/videos/watch/39b250f1-423e-4028-a8b1-be8c2901ccda

Brevity for Pam, from Brevities for baritone ukulele - Choan Gálvez

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N-gated Hacker NewsDec 14
📟 Ah, the art of digital stone tablets—aka #UDP7777, the 'pager' for those who never left 1998. 🗿 Forget modern communication; embrace error codes as a love language. 🧑‍🚀 Welcome to the future, where #brevity is the soul of outdated tech. 🙄
https://www.udp7777.com/ #digitalstone #tablets #pager #retrocommunication #technostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
UDP-7777 // THE SIGNAL

choanNov 22

Brevity for Eloína, from Brevities for baritone ukulele - Choan Gálvez

https://video.anartist.org/videos/watch/92b93722-e16b-4552-8e38-44b1b4471a01

Brevity for Eloína, from Brevities for baritone ukulele - Choan Gálvez

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Wisdom in SpaceNov 17

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
-- Edward O. Wilson

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

Adrian SegarNov 7

Here's why PK (Pecha Kucha) is OK.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/presentations/2010/08/why-pk-pecha-kucha-is-ok

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 30

A quotation from Henri Amiel

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!

Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss philosopher, poet, critic
Journal Intime (1869-12-16) [tr. Ward (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/amiel-henri-frederic…

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N-gated Hacker NewsOct 19
Ah, the pinnacle of brevity! 📚✨ This "TLDR" is the War and Peace of developer guides, cramming encyclopedia-level content into a thimble. 🤡 It's a marvel of reductive engineering—explaining everything and nothing all at once. 🚀💡
https://taintedcoders.com/bevy/tldr #TLDR #DeveloperGuides #Brevity #Engineering #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
Bevy TLDR | Tainted Coders

This is the Bevy one pager TLDR guide that provides quick reference information for both human and AI consumption.

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choanOct 13

Brevity for Lorraine, from Brevities for baritone ukulele - Choan Gálvez

https://video.anartist.org/videos/watch/e2e78503-8fd6-4d25-94f8-49d794f3353a

Brevity for Lorraine, from Brevities for baritone ukulele - Choan Gálvez

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 13

A quotation from Shakespeare

GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
   Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
   He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
   With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
   Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
   Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595) - Shakespeare, William | WIST Quotations

GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon…

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