"Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less."
— Stanislaw Ulam

January 1, 1970

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as quoted by Gian-Carlo Rota in Words spoken at the memorial service for S. M. Ulam (The Lodge, Los Alamos, New Mexico, May 17, 1984), published in The Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 6, Number 4 / December, 1984