Epictetus said, “And let silence be the general rule, or let only what is necessary be said, and in few words. And rarely and when the occasion calls shall we say something.” Tom Wolfe wrote in The Right Stuff, “One of the greatest sins was ‘chattering’ or ‘jabbering’ on the radio…. A Navy pilot (in legend, at any rate) began shouting, ‘I’ve got a MIG at zero! A MIG at zero!’…. An irritated voice cut in and said, ‘Shut up and die like an aviator.’”
