Isn't there a business rule that postulates that a person can be promoted starting at the level of his/her own incompetence? Kind of in the same vein. Maybe not. But in terms of succinctness being power as Paul Graham article states, I wouldn't jump on that bandwagon for sure. I could whip up some obfuscated, cryptic Perl line of code that is very succinct for my company's internal development but if I was to get hit by a bus someone would pick up the code and frown menacingly and throw their hands up to the heavens (or down to the hells perhaps). Terse doesn't mean powerful. It means ugly IMHO. I like to use Ruby for its elegance and readability. If it takes a few more lines of code to express myself I still prize those selling points above being a man of few words. After all, breaking things down to binary form I could just punch a bunch of 0's and 1's. But what fun would that be? Hal Fulton wrote: > Matt Lawrence wrote: > > Knowledge is Power > > Power Corrupts > > Study Hard > > Be Evil > > Knowledge is power. > Time is money. > Power is work / time. > > So knowledge = work / money. > > Therefore, the more you make, the less you know. > > > Hal