“The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.”
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Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
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Source: Math for the Layman (1999), Ch. 10, §D

Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1987, p. 286

William Stanley Jevons Letter to his brother (1 June 1860), published in Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons (1886), edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife, p. 151 - 152.

“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto

Letter to his brother (1 June 1860), published in Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons (1886), edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife, p. 151. https://archive.org/details/cu31924074297254/page/n168/mode/1up
Source: Meeting the challenge (2009), p. xxvii.

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Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

Source: Math for the Layman (1999), Ch. 10, §D