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Sturgeon's Law
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prov. Ninety percent of everything is crud. Derived from a quote by science
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fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, Sure, 90% of science
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fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud. Sturgeon himself
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called this Sturgeon's Revelation , and it first appeared in the March 1958
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issue of Venture Science Fiction ; he gave Sturgeon's Law as Nothing is
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always absolutely so. Oddly, when Sturgeon's Revelation is cited, the final
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word is almost invariably changed to crap. Compare Hanlon's Razor ,
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Ninety-Ninety Rule. Though this maxim originated in SF fandom, most hackers
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recognize it and are all too aware of its truth.
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