[EuroPython] Talk lengths

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:12:54 +0200, Dinu Gherman writes:
>I assume, the average speaker likes to give longer talks and the
>average listener likes to consume shorter talks - a least for
>average talks.
>
>If you need prove that exceptional talks can be less than 20 min-
>utes have a look at ted.com, maybe starting here:
>
>   http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92  (Hans Rosling)
>   http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/140 (Hans Rosling)
>   http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229 (Jill Bolte Taylor)
>   http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/237 (Clifford Stoll)
>
>Thanks to Laura for pointing me to Hans Rosling's videos.

Glad you liked them.  It may, alas, take an exceptional person to
make an exceptional talk at 20 minutes.

see: 
    "I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time
    to make it shorter."  Blaise Pascal, "Lettres Provinciales", letter
    16, 1657

Laura