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From: ludwigj@CS.ColoState.EDU (Vilkata (Joe Ludwig))
Subject: English
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 04:48:17 GMT
Organization: BadgerCom Industries


 "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for them Mexicans"
  -- I've heard it was some politician in Texas

and another...

  "The problem with learning from experience is that you get the test before
   the lesson."
   -- I don't know
-- 
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| Vilkata, the Dark King   | "Science friction burns my fingers, Electricity |
| ludwigj@cs.colostate.edu |  still lingers. Put away that ray gun.  How do  |
| Vilkata@Most MUCKs       |  you martians say... I love you?" -- XTC        |
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: futtrup@daimi.aau.dk (Erik Futtrup S|rensen)
Subject: Prism - a quote from ad 2007
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 12:11:42 GMT


	Memory is a prism through which yesterdays's light is passed;
	Split into a rainbow of moments each colored more dimly than
	the last. How will today's light look tomorrow and -- how 
	would tomorrows look today? Would the filter of time be as
	brutal if that prism were two-way?
					    -- Asbur Honworth, ad 2007


..from the Infocom Aventure 'A Mind Forever Voyaging'
The title, by the way, is also a quite nice quote:


	A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
					    -- William Wordsworth


-- Erik Futtrup (email:futtrup@daimi.aau.dk)
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From: offordj@wl.com (Jim Offord)
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Organization: Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:57:09 GMT

How about:
You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
-- 
Dr. Jim Offord		|Any sufficiently advanced technology
Dept. of Biotechnology	|is indistinguishable from magic.
Parke-Davis 		|	Arthur Clarke's Third Law
offordj@wl.com		|Opinions? Those babies are all mine.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: douellet@csulb.edu (Daniel Ouellette)
Subject: Re: Money (was: Abstractions)
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:55:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.202653.4817@dcc.uchile.cl> ereimber@cipres.cec.uchile.cl (Reimberg Navarro Erich Eduardo) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.150914.13803@infodev.cam.ac.uk> amd@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk writes:
>>	'Money doesn't buy you happiness.'
>>	No, but it buys a parking space pretty close.
>>
>  How about :
>    'Money doesn't buy you happiness,
>     Money *is* your happiness'
>
>                            -ern
  Or this:
	'One thing about money, It doesn't make things worse.'
					-Morrisey


-- 
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*	Daniel Ouellette       | 	 "People need to be schocked"	    *
*   douellet@beach.csulb.edu   |		     -Me	   	    *
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: jpacker@willamette.edu (Jason Packer)
Subject: Re: Genghis Khan
Summary: Other variants
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:45:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.124553.10304@odin.diku.dk> hedin@diku.dk (Thundergod) writes:
>"Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches,
>ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women.
>       							--- Genghis Khan"
I'm not sure about this one, but there is a fine quotation from "Conan the      Barbarian" about such things...it goes something like (but probably not exactly
like) this:
	"Conan, what are the best things in life?"

	"To vanquish your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear
	 the lamentation of their women!"

Jas
From: sven@cs.widener.edu (Sven M Heinicke)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Boolean Hamlet
Date: 23 Dec 1992 00:29:44 GMT
Organization: Widener CS Dept
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In-reply-to: caedmon@cats.ucsc.edu's message of 22 Dec 1992 23:32:21 GMT

In article <1h88i5INNn7i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> caedmon@cats.ucsc.edu (Axeman) writes:

   to_be || !to_be 


(mapcar 'hail-macbeth all)

--
Sven Heinicke <sven@cs.widener.edu>
``If it can't be done in DCL, then it ain't worth doing.''
 --Jeff Austin  austin@cs.widener.edu  (1990)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: mattb@microsoft.com (Matt Bamberger)
Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
Date: 27 Dec 92 22:36:39 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Distribution: usa

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
	-Edmund Burke
-- 
Matt Bamberger                    "Blood brothers in the stormy night
Microsoft Corporation              with a vow to defend.
Excel Development                  No retreat, baby, no surrender!"
"RECALC OR DIE!"                              -Bruce Springsteen
From: clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Capitalism and Socialism
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:21:33 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department

In article <MT.92Dec26123702@media-lab.media.mit.edu> mt@media.mit.edu (Michael Travers) writes:
>Under capitalism, man exploits man.
>Under socialism, it's just the opposite.
>
> (old joke)


Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, as well as my memory allows:

"The weakness of capitalism is that not all share the wealth equally,
while the strength of socialism is that all share equally its misery."









-- 
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"It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once." David Hume
|||  clc5q@virginia.edu (Clark L. Coleman)
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From: darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 27 Dec 92 06:55:05 GMT


Hurm.
Anyone know the full quotation found in Fermat's notebook?
The one which starts, "I have a wonderful proof of the validity
of the equation ..."  (or some such.)

I need it so I can accurately change the quote for inclusion on a
bathroom stall in the engineering dept...

--
"As you can see, I'm not follwing the schedule anymore.  Except for the test
 day."
          -'Dr.' Robert Chapman, 09-18-91
John S. Novak, III		darknite@camelot.bradley.edu
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: bdowning@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Downing)
Subject: Re: you can quote me...
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:06:18 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.151056.1103@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
>  ``I before E, except after C. Is that a sufficiently weird rule for you?''
>
>                                              -Me

"And except when it sounds like "ay" as in neighbor and weigh"


-- 
Bill Downing, President		Email: bdowning@unixland.natick.ma.us		
DOWNING ASSOCIATES, INC.
8 Doyle Lane, Hopkinton, MA 01748
508-435-4567
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Shakespearean Quotations: Do you fancy a few?
Date: 25 Dec 92 05:07:07 GMT
 theastern.edu><1992Dec22.144737.3333@news2.cis.umn.edu><1992Dec24.165449.22995@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: nancy@genie.slhs.udel.edu's message of 24 Dec 92 16:54:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.165449.22995@genie.slhs.udel.edu> nancy@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Nancy Lebovitz) writes:

>>
>>	Oh, what a tangled web we weave
>>	When first we practise to deceive!
>        But when we've practiced for a while, 
>        How greatly we improve our style!
>
>Does anyone have a source for the addition?

I remember seeing this in a book I had ages ago, _Words At Play_ by Willard
R. Epsy.  I've no clue where my copy got to, though.  There was another coup-
let in the middle there:

Which leads me to suppose the fact is
We really ought to get more practice.

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -unknown
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Subject: Re: Who said THIS one?
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:38:56 GMT

In article <1hpvjfINNqth@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer) writes:
>
>   This may be old, but I'd like to know who said the following (and have
>some evidence to back up the assertion):
>
>   "There are no failures of talent, only failures of character."

Well, this one isn't in my Bartlett's 14th, but there is one by
the 18th Century German poet Heinrich Heine:

"No talent, but a character." From Atta Troll, 1843, chapter 24.

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Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu  -or-  415/926-2846
Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.
- Heinrich Heine
From: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: some Twain quotes
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:33:45
Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: ishtar.berkeley.edu
Keywords: mark twain, samuel clemens, quotes

By request, here are some Mark Twain quotes:

-----

	``You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out
	of focus.''
					- Mark Twain
-----

	``Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is
	time to reform.''
					- M. Twain

-----
[good fodder for your .plan file]

	``He that waiteth for all men to be satisfied with his plan, let
	him seek eternal life, for he shall need it.''

					- Mark Twain

-----

	``The difference between the right word and a similar word is
	the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.''
				--Mark Twain
-----

	``Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.''
			-- Mark Twain
-----

[this one is particulary relevant to Berkeley of late]

	``Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on
	society.'' -- Mark Twain

--
Rob McNicholas		    Technical & Computing Services, EECS, U.C. Berkeley
robm@eecs.berkeley.edu	    Voice: 510/642-8633  FAX: 510/643-7846
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: The Quotation to End All Quoting
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:31:14 GMT

Charles Neveu (charles@capmkt.COM) wrote:

: I've heard it this way:
: The opposite of truth is falsity, but the opposite of a great truth is
: another great truth.

Sherwood Botsford, my former sysadmin, had this to say about platitudes...

"Platitude is latitude with a 'p' in front of it.  Latitude is perpendicular to
longitude, so platitudes must be perpendicular to plongitudes.  A platitude is
something that is trite but true.  So a plongitude, at right angles to it,
must be something that is profound but utterly false."

Paraphrased from memory, and I have no idea if it's his originally, but I
always attribute it to him.

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"I'm gonna follow my feelings...I'm gonna follow my senses...I'm gonna follow   my compass!"
Current Album--Lone Justice
Current Read--Tesseracts4
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: The Quotation to End All Quoting
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:13:56 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
Keywords: paradox quote

According to batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil. 301/286-2988):
> "Never look a gift horse in the mouth."
>                - proverb
> "Never buy a pig in a poke."
>                - proverb

"Many hands make light work."

 -- but --

"Too many cooks spoil the broth."

-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Subject: Re: Einstein
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:05:54 GMT

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. -- Einstein

-----

Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied:  "You see, wire
telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.  You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.  Do you understand this?
And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
receive them there.  The only difference is that there is no cat."

-----

From 'The Little, Brown Book Of Anecdotes' by Clifton Fadiman
 
Albert Einstein was a late talker as a child. His parents were
understandably worried. finally at the supper table one evening, 
He broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot." Greatly relieved,
his parents asked why he never said a word before. Young Albert
replied, "Because up to now everything was in order." 

-----

It is alledged that when Einstein and his wife visited the Mount
Wilson Observatory in California, Mrs. Einstein pointed to a particularly
complex piece of equipment and asked its purpose. Their guide said
that it was used to determine the shape of the universe. "Oh," she
said, not at all impressed, "my husband uses the back of an old 
envelope to work that out."

-----

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I
would want to devote myself to except for the society of the
true searchers, which has very few living members at any one time.
          Einstein, quoted by Max Born(1971.).

-----

Discontinuous and hence nonlinear time is what Einstein feared:

        I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the
        field concept, i. e., on continuous structures. In that case
        *nothing* remains of my entire castle in the air, gravitation
        theory included, [and of] the rest of modern physics.
                -- Einstein in a 1954 letter to Besso, quoted from:
                "Subtle is the Lord", Abraham Pais, page 467.
-----

 And Einstein said

        If Euclid failed to kindle your youthful enthusiasm, then you were
        not born to be a scientific thinker.

American Mathematical Monthly, Sept or Oct 1992 (last issue as of 1992 Oct 18)
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu

-----

	Once the validity of this mode of thought has been recognized, the
final results appear almost simple; any intelligent undergraduate can 
understand them without much trouble.  But the years of searching in the
dark for a truth that one feels, but cannot express; the intense desire
and the alternations of confidence and misgiving, until one breaks
through to clarity and understanding, are only known to him who has
himself experienced them. - Albert Einstein, 1933

-----

Does anybody know the sources of the ones I don't have?

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: fstawit@icomp01.lerc.nasa.gov (Tawit Chitsomboon)
Subject: Five more Quotes form me (Part II)
Originator: fstawit@icomp01
Organization: Institute for Computational Mechanics in Propulsion
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:54:50 GMT


------------------------------------------------------------------
If you don't understand my quote, it's either my poor English;
or it's too profound :-)
------------------------------------------------------------------

What the pro-life really pro is their after lives.
What the pro-choice really pro is anti the pro-life's choice.

A true prolife lets the mothers determine their own lives.
A true prochoice lets the unborns choose.

The prolife says killing the unborn is bad but killing the death-row
inmate is OK. Prochoice says the opposite. We need a pro-consistency.

It's not over until they say: "It's not over until the fat lady sings."

It's not over until it goes under.
It's not going under until a hostile takeover.
An understatment for business, the world over.

-tawit
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Even the present life does not exist, How could the after-life exist?
                	--(Translated from Thai) Buddhadasa Bhikkhu.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: zaphod@src4src.linet.org (Steve Wechsler)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Re: Presidential quote (Reagan)
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:53:53 GMT
Organization: The Source for Source


Speaking of Ronald Reagon quotes...I seem to remember reading in the
New York Times (I think) a quote by RR during the 1988 election, where
he said something to the effect of "The way Michael Dukakis talks, you
would think there were people in this country living on the street."
Does anyone else remember this, or is it my imagination playing tricks
on me.

Please e-mail (post also if you like) as my site purges news *too*
quickly.
-- 
Steve Wechsler | zaphod@src4src.linet.org    |    Call Lady Hawke's Castle BBS:
"We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few,  |  (516) 226-4630
 With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too" -- Toy Matinee
"Watch??  I'm gonna pray, man!  Know any good religions?" -- Zaphod Beeblebrox
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: good@pixar.com (I'm not a doctor, but I play one on T.V.)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti  
Organization: Pixar - Pt. Richmond, CA USA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:18:06 GMT

:|> Anybody else seen any good graphiti?

The best graffiti of which I ever heard was a note on a wall reading:

	My mother made me a homosexual

Scrawled under it in different handwriting was:

	If I buy her the wool will she make me one?


		--Craig
-- 
	good@pixar.com
	Make Welfare as hard to get as Bulding Permits
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Taxation and Representation (Was: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.)
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 02:21:28 GMT



In article <1110@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, mpc+@pitt.edu (Mike Contento) writes:
> 
> If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation
> was bad, he should see how bad it is WITH representation.
>                                                      - The Old Farmers Almanac

"What we should have fought for was representation without taxation."
			-- Sam Levenson, "You Don't Have to Be in `Who's Who'
			                  to Know What's What"

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>

Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:31:01 GMT


"Trapped, like a trap in a trap."
		-- Dorothy Parker

One of my favs...

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Date: 27 Dec 92 00:55:33
 f.edu><1992Dec26.110931.29559@athena.mit.edu><1992Dec26.191806.23152@pixar.com>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: good@pixar.com's message of 26 Dec 92 19:18:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.191806.23152@pixar.com> good@pixar.com (I'm not a doctor, but I play one on T.V.) writes:

>:|> Anybody else seen any good graphiti?

I saw this one in the first-floor men's room of the Lederle Graduate Research 
Center at UMass-Amherst some years back:

/
|  1
| ----- d cabin 
| cabin
/

= log cabin + C 

= houseboat 
--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -SNL


Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: mjamroz@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Margaret Jamroz)
Subject: some personal favorites
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:56:09 GMT



"I feel like I'm being pecked to death by ducks."
		-Machintosh Computer ad


"Stimpy, your wealth of ignorance astounds me."
		-Ren Hoek


"I'm bored--I think I'll become a beatnik."
		-Sluggo (from the Nancy comic strip)


"You shouldn't think about *how* we're doing this.  You should ask yourself,
'why?'"
		-Penn Jillette



maggie, resident techno goddess
nwu medical school
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: sborders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Borders)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 04:00:57 GMT

Seen in a bathroom at Iowa State University, located just above
the rolls of paper so you had to lean forward to read it:

    "You are now sitting at a 45 degree angle."

This, of course, is much funnier after an all-nighter and a 
couple of back-to-back finals.

--
Scott Borders
sborders@nyx.cs.du.edu
borders_scott@tandem.com

Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Subject: Re: if at first you [do|don't] succeed...
Reply-To: joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
Organization: SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:27:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.003957.16623@quantime.co.uk>, roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips) writes:
|> 
|> "If at first you don't suck seed, try drier grain."
|> -- Frank Muir or Denis Norden
|> 
|> "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
|> -- Quentin Crisp, in a questionnaire from
|>    the Sunday Correspondent Magazine, 24 Sep 89.
|>    Mind you, it was in answer to the question
|>    "What would your motto be?",
|>    so he's not necessarily claiming to have coined the phrase.

If at first you don't succeed, try second base.
-- Origin unknown

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No sense
being a damn fool about it.
-- W. C. Fields (?)

*) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *)!(* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (*
Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu  -or-  415/926-2846
Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: canright@convex.com (Robert Canright)
Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:24:28 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1992Dec30.221850.29266@news2.cis.umn.edu> charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:

>In article <76480003@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com
>(Tony Zugates) writes:
>>Does anyone know Sturgeon's Law?
>>I think it goes "90 percent of everything is crap".
>>
>>I cant remember where I heard it, but I think the story goes: 
>>
>>Theodore Sturgeon (the late SciFi writer) was giving a lecture
>>and some young man stood up and said "I've been reading a lot 
>>of SF and most of it is crap!"
>>
>>Sturgeon responded: "90 percent...."
>>
>>Is this true?

The story I heard was that Sturgeon was criticized for writing a Star Trek
episode.  He was told that TV is crap & he responded "90%...."

Does anyone know if Sturgeon truly wrote a Star Trek episode?  Which one?