jps@uh.msc.umn.edu (Jeff P. Sorvik) (04/05/91)
Here is a somewhat unique request. I need to give brief description of what
I do as a Tech Writer to a group of government folks. I am looking for
an interesting/humorous quote that I can use to open this talk.
I would prefer it to be a phrase that is descriptive of the "joys" of
technical writing.
Any ideas?
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#---------------------------------------------------------------------------tomc@modcomp.uucp (Tom Cianflone) (04/08/91)
jps@uh.msc.umn.edu (Jeff P. Sorvik) writes: >Here is a somewhat unique request. I need to give brief description of what >I do as a Tech Writer to a group of government folks. I am looking for >an interesting/humorous quote that I can use to open this talk. As a tech writer myself, here are a few of my favorite quotes about writing: "Doctors bury their mistakes; the architect can always urge his client to plant vines; but the writer publishes his mistakes." --Ernest Hemingway "A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity." --Edgar Allan Poe And this from Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style": "The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in his blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up." -- Regards, Tom Cianflone <uunet!modcomp!tomc> -or- <modcomp!tomc@uunet.uu.net>