If I'd had more time, I'd have made this shorter.

So much depends on wheelbarrows and less time.

“The Wheelbarrow.” Image © Julie R. Neidlinger

I would have made this article shorter but I didn’t have enough time.

That’s a saying ascribed to so many people, from Voltaire to Pascal to Benjamin Franklin, that it’s hard to know where it came from.

I don’t care who it came from. It’s correct.