[Ads-l] Earliest Use of "Live Long and Prosper" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel Berson]

Isn't Sturgeon's Law "All creativity is uphill"?  Or is that Salmon's Law?

Joel


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> According to my usual W-flavored source for this kind of trivia, it 
> was used in the episode Amok Time, which was written by Theodore 
> Sturgeon (a ranking SciFi writer of the fifties and sixties).
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> Geoffrey S. Nathan

Also creator of Sturgeon's Law:  "90% of everything is crap".

http://jessesword.com/sf/view/328





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