atw: Re: "Sturgeon's Law" - Word of the Day from the OED [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

I'm surprised that's not called Nielsen's law - he has a proclivity to
proclaim in those terms.

-Melanie

On 21/02/06, Bob.Trussler@xxxxxxxxxxx <Bob.Trussler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll try that again.  a shorter version - to try and remove the 90% crap.
>
> A humorous aphorism which maintains that most of any body of published
> material ... is worthless: based on a statement by Sturgeon, usually later
> cited as '90 per cent of everything is crap'
>
> A sobering thought for us.
>
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