Never be so brief as to become obscure.

  • -- Hosea Ballou 马士

永远不要过于简短以至于变得晦涩难懂。

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Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.

考虑到我们在这里的时间很短,我们人类似乎也只能对事物的形状、某些事件的重要性以及“好”与“坏”运气的区别有一个狭隘的理解。

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

没有什么艺术比观察的艺术更难获得,对一些人来说,用简单明了的语言记录观察同样困难。

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

我非常专注地工作,脑子里有数百个模糊的工程或编程的东西。在这方面我真的很特别。

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

摇滚乐并不晦涩难懂,它真的很容易理解。我的画也是。

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

幸福是短暂的。它不会留下来。上帝拍打着它的船帆。

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

简洁是改正之母。