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Jim Michaels On Editing
“Shorter was always better; he could cut 15%, he said, from any piece, and was rumoured to be able to get the Lord’s Prayer down to six choice words.” - Jim Michaels’ (former Forbes editor) obituary in The Economist, October 13th-19th 2007.
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Innovation Is Like Porn
“One senior executive maintains that innovation simply cannot be defined exactly, but that ‘like pornography I know it when I see it.’” — “A Dark Art No More” from The Economist, October 13th-19th 2007.
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