> Pascal’s notion was quite memorable... it was discussed in a French book about language. That work was translated and published in London in 1676 as “The Art of Speaking”
> The first known instance in the English language was a sentence translated from a text written by the French mathematician and philosopher #BlaisePascal. The French statement appeared in a letter in a collection called “ #LettresProvinciales” in the year 1657:
> I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. #MoreTimeShorterPapers #LessBullshit 🧵