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Efficiency Is the Enemy of Invention

by exposition on 12/21/23, 10:49 AM with 2 comments

  • by Baldbvrhunter on 12/21/23, 1:48 PM

    Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

    I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.

    From a collection of letters from Blaise Pascal published in a collection called “Lettres Provinciales” (1657)