A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. The greatness of a person can nearly always be measured in her willingness to be kind. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With that, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get.
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
The grown-ups get to make the rules, and we have all the fun. The random number generator. My name is Ernest Ackermann and most folks around here call me Ernie . A column about ways of finding what you need on the Internet and the Web. I teach in the Computer Science Department at Mary Washington College .