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[Jeff Kinz]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:10:01AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:39:53AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > No thanks.  I'll stick with mutt and procmail.
> 
> That's the only way I can keep track of so many lists.  No GUI client
> lets me process as many messages as quickly as mutt.  If I were to give
> up mutt, I'd have to give up half my mailing lists.
> 
> > "Perfection is reached not when there is no longer anything to add,
> > but when there is no longer anything to take away." (A. Saint-Exupery)
> 
> I once went to a presentation where the speaker apologized for the
> length of his speach because he said he didn't have enough prep time to
> make it shorter.  


I believe he was quoting/paraphrasing Voltaire: 
....<googling>....
Nope - Looks like it was Blaise Pascal (inventor of the first computer!)
or possibly even Cicero! (earlier)

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TimeToMakeItShort
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2003/07/msg00105.html

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