Re: Banter: Secret Keys

[uboru@pop.erols.com (Diane Carter)]

Poster: uboru@pop.erols.com (Diane Carter)

>Poster: Gregory Stapleton <gregsta@MICROSOFT.com>
>
>Oh most wise and noble Henry,
>
>Pray tell, what are the other Secret Keys to Universal Mastery and how
>may we obtain them?  Could you offer this as a class in the next
>University, or it being full, the one after? :)
>
>                 />         Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!
>                /<    *Lord Gawain Kilgore, Chronicler of Sacred Stone*
>[\\\\\\\\\\\\\\(O)<======================================--
>                \<                      *Gregory G. Stapleton*
>                 \>      *kilgore@vnet.net or gregsta@microsoft.com*
>
>
>
>>----------
>>From:  John Strauss[SMTP:jstrauss@gmu.edu]
>>Sent:  Wednesday, October 16, 1996 1:59 PM
>>To:    atlantia@csc.ncsu.edu
>>Subject:       re: Sturgeon's Law
>><snip>
>>I personally take this to be a simplistic (and possibly overstated)
>>corollary of the Pareto Principle, aka the 80/20 Rule. In which it is
>>observed that:
>>
>>80% of the task is accomplishable with 20% of the total effort
>>(The other 20% results take 80% of the effort. Learning to identify that
>>critical 20% task list is the Second Secret Key of Universal Mastery.)
>>
><snip>
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That one is easy. Of course, the answer is 42!

Brigantia


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