A gradual refinement The steel rail is an artifact whose form has been carefully optimized. This gradual refinement of the design was done not by a single brilliant engineer but by more than a century of industrial evolution. The rail was never meant to be an object of beauty, but its cross section has all the elegance of fine typography. Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape elegancetypographytransportationevolutionchange
Writing is one way to go about thinking And the practice and habit of writing not only drains the mind but supplies it, too. William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White, The Elements of Style Expressing ideas helps to form them thinking