"Everything takes longer than it takes" (1996?)

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EVERYTHING TAKES LONGER THAN IT TAKES--460 Google hits.
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Little Green Footballs has been down a lot recently, and the  blog cited this 
"Murphy's Law."
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_http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/_ 
(http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/) 
As Murphy says, “Everything takes longer than it takes,” and our database  
re-indexing is a case in point.
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(GOOGLE GROUPS)
_A  'Quote of the Day' type program?_ 
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_thread/thread/8cdec60f7074489a/dfd6d6aecb4159c2?lnk=st&q="everyth
ing+takes+longer+than+it+takes"&rnum=6&hl=en#dfd6d6aecb4159c2)       Group: 
_comp.lang.c++_ (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++?lnk=sg&hl=en)     
 I thought this sounded pretty easy. Boy was I wrong! Vance, to quote a  
famous random
quote "Everything takes longer  than it takes." Some suggestions (having done 
 this
in C). Approach 1) File contains random-length records. ...  
Jun 18 1996 by Amelia A Lewis - 5 messages - 5 authors  



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