Form Quote by Douglas Adams

How come abbreviated is such a long word?

— Steven Wright

The mistake that people made around 2000 with the emergence of the web was that they thought that people would not read long-form on…

— Terry McDonell

Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

— Elvis Costello

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

— Rio Ferdinand

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump…

— Tim Berners-Lee

I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these…

— David Carson

This is the short and the long of it.

— William Shakespeare

It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!

— Rachel Vincent

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

— George Orwell

I've never been short of words. I think my mum will tell you that. I think I've known that since primary school.

— Edith Bowman

“Why is abbreviation such a long word?”

— Teresa Monachino