[LINK] The future of Link

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

And ... (this may not be verbatim) ...

"If you have nothing to say, say nothing. Better still, have something to say, and say it no matter what the question was."
- Jim Hacker, Yes Prime Minister.

(ie, Jonathan Lynn and the co-writer)

Rc

> 
> From: Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au>
> Date: 14/06/2005 8:17:06
> To: Link <link at anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [LINK] The future of Link
> 
> Antony Barry wrote:
>  
> > Bernard might know who once said -
> > 
> > "When you have nothing to say, say it."
> 
> OK, I'll bite.
> 
> When you have nothing to say, say it with conviction
> -- Edmont's Rule
> 
> If you have nothing to say, or, rather, something extremely stupid and
> obvious, say it, but in a 'plonking' tone of voice - i.e. roundly, but
> hollowly and dogmatically. 
> -- Stephen Potter
> 
> It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has
> something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the
> less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an
> achievement. 
> -- Horace
> 
> Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and
> can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. 
> -- Robert Frost 
> 
> -- 
> Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to
> say it. 
> -- James Russell Lowell 
> 
> Regards
> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Sydney Australia
> brd at iimetro.com.au
> 
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