A Quote for Public Speakers from Arthur C. Clarke

"Brevity, said Lord Bacon, is the soul of wit, and conciseness is a virtue I have always admired.

The magic of poetry lies in its power to compress ideas or emotions into a mere handful of words.

But prose can work the same spell, which is why Francis Bacon's aphorism has survived the centuries."

--Arthur C. Clarke,
"Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds"
(St. Martin's, 1999)