atw: "Sturgeon's Law" - Word of the Day from the OED [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
- From: Bob.Trussler@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:18:31 +1100
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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Bob Trussler
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