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If I had more time I would have written a shorter comment. I thought I added a nuance to what Eisenhower's said (or at least to how I noticed people interpret
by ithkuil 4y ago
If I had more time I would have written a shorter comment.
I thought I added a nuance to what Eisenhower's said (or at least to how I noticed people interpret it) but apparently I did a poor job and adding more words would just make it worse.
- AlbertCory 4y agoYou explained an aphorism, which is fine, but you added the gratuitous "sloppy thinking" which is not. An aphorism by definition doesn't contain all the nuances. If we looked through Eisenhower's whole life, which is pretty well documented, I'm sure we could find lengthy explanations of his approach to war.
- ithkuil 4y agoActually I replied with another aphorism (attributed to Dick Guindon and later expanded by Leslie Lamport as "Mathematics is nature's way to tell you how sloppy your writing is") What I try to add here is the fact that other forms of technical writing can be seen as forms of planning and thus there is a connection between the two aphorisms