Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!jsc From: jsc@sun.uucp (James Carrington) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.books Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law Message-ID: <2340@sun.uucp> Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 02:57:40 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2340 Posted: Sun Jun 23 02:57:40 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:16:53 EDT References: <11311@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: jsc@sun.UUCP (James Carrington) Distribution: net Organization: SUN Microsystems Workstation Division Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.sf-lovers:8157 net.books:1984 Summary: In article <11311@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: >There have been references to Theodore Sturgeon recently, and also a few >citations of the famous "Sturgeon's Law". I would like to trace down the >actual origin and exact text of this famous principle. I hate to post something I can't substantiate right at the moment, but I believe he said it at a world science fiction convention, while on some panel or another of sf authors. I recall reading an anecdote about it in one of I. Asimov's HUGO winners anthologies. -- James Carrington SUN Microsystems Associate Engineer 2550 Garcia Ave. MS1-40 Workstation Division Mountain View CA 94043 Networking Department 415-960-7438