From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-03-15:
"Dissertations vary in length, from a few pages for some mathematical papers to hundreds of pages for historical or literary studies, and they vary in readability, from the merely turgid to the utterly incomprehensible." -- Fred Lerner, in The Story of Libraries.
(submitted to the mailing list by Chris Doherty)
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