New old saying: "90% of the work...."

[Mark Mandel]

I've heard this for many years in software. I think I first heard it at
Honeywell in the 1980s.

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On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 1/8/2010 10:06 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Today at [
> >http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=126218&messages=230&page=1&desc=yes
> ]:
> >
> >"I spent 33 years as a sound engineer at the BBC. I know just how long it
> >takes to do the simplest of things.
> >"We had a saying.
> >"90% of the work takes 90% of the time.
> >"The other 10% takes the other 90% of the time."
>
> It took me a second, but LOL.  The BBC sound engineer must have been
> in the business of promotion (perhaps for recording artists), where
> shares are legendarily sold totaling more than 100%.  (I've recently
> seen a rerun of an episode of "The Rockford Files" that tells me so.)
>
> Joel
>
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