atw: Re: "Sturgeon's Law" - Word of the Day from the OED

Stuart Burnfield:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:54:02 +0800,  you wrote:
> I don't think Sturgeon (a science fiction author) meant it as
> a proclamation. In a later interview he referred to it semi-
> humorously as Sturgeon's Revelation:
>
> "... which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying
> defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used
> the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose
> conclusion was that ninety percent of sf is crud."
>
> His point wasn't the sour one that 90 percent of everything is
> rubbish. He meant that it's unfair to judge any field (books,
> movies, TV, technical manuals, shareware) by its worst
> examples. It's the excellent 10 percent that matters.
>

Sturgeon, like Murphy, was an optimist.

I used to read film scripts all day. 

-Peter M
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