Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!barryg From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.books Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law Message-ID: <2098@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 10:26:32 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2098 Posted: Sat Jun 22 10:26:32 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:13:10 EDT References: <11311@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Distribution: net Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 6 Xref: watmath net.sf-lovers:8155 net.books:1983 Summary: The way I heard it, Sturgeon's Law went, "90% of everything is crud." (Crap and shit can sometimes be useful, if only as manure. Crud is by definition useless.) If true, this reprents an intereting case of popular myth cacophemizing a saying. --Lee Gold