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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sometime between 1968 and 1973 an older friend advised me that "Things take longer than they do."

  True enough.

  JL

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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 thi=
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"Murphy's Law."
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As Murphy says, =E2=80=9CEverything takes longer than it takes,=E2=80=9D and=
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re-indexing is a case in point.
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(GOOGLE GROUPS)
_A 'Quote of the Day' type program?_=20
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_thread/thread/8cdec60f7=
074489a/dfd6d6aecb4159c2?lnk=3Dst&q=3D"everyth
ing+takes+longer+than+it+takes"&rnum=3D6&hl=3Den#dfd6d6aecb4159c2) Gro=
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_comp.lang.c++_ (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++?lnk=3Dsg&hl=
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I thought this sounded pretty easy. Boy was I wrong! Vance, to quote a =20
famous random
quote "Everything takes longer than it takes." Some suggestions (having don=
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this
in C). Approach 1) File contains random-length records. ... =20
Jun 18 1996 by Amelia A Lewis - 5 messages - 5 authors =20



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