I don't have time for that. It wasn't succinct enough :-/ Reprisal wrote: > You might consider reading the article. > > On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:10 AM, gregarican wrote: > > > 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 > > > >