Agree here too. It always makes me think of Hemingway and his ability to never use more words than necessary to say something, and at that, always the words th

Agree here too. It always makes me think of Hemingway and his ability to never use more words than necessary to say something, and at that, always the words that say it best. Someone else picked up on the similarity between the Hemingway rules for writing well and parts of the UNIX philosophy: http://unix-simple.blogspot.com/2011/03/unix-and-hemingway.html http://unix-simple.blogspot.com/2011/03/unix-and-hemingway.h... It should be noted that Hemingway's fifth rule "5. Write one page of masterpiece vs. 91 pages of garbage." doesn't infer writing complex sentences, but emphasises not using 10 words when 1 will do.