I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the worlds shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. – Edward O. Wilson

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish