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>Here's a one-liner for Thomas Barker's mug collection:
>"Most writers try to economize the mental effort of the writer,
>not the reader."
> --T.A. Rickard, _A Guide to Technical Writing_, 2nd ed., 1910.
>_Plus ca change . . .
I found this in somebody's .sig on rec.guns:
>"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
>anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
>and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." Plato, _Phaedrus_
You might want to have a look at an original source before committing
it to ceramic, but it certainly seems... well, if not Platonic, at
least Pirsigesque, which is the next-best thing. :)
Next trip into the attic, I'll try to find the old column that I wrote
for the local STC newsletter, postulating that Hesiod was the first
technical writer...
Have a better one,
--Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
Disclaimer: Even if my employer had a position on the subject,
I probably wouldn't be the one stating it on their behalf.
