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Actually, there's a similar list that's been floating around the Internet
for some time...It's based on 99% being good enough...I'll see if I can find
it in my archives at home this evening.
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From: <LDurway -at- pav -dot- com>
The head of QA, who was one
> of the sharpest and most thorough people I ever worked with,
> wrote up a long list of situations that demonstrated 90% quality:
>
> Your car fails to start every 4 days
> 100(?) words misspelled on every page of the newspaper
> Your paycheck is off by 10%
> Several thousand people die in airline crashes every day
> Out of every 12-pack of sodas, at least one can contains a roach
> and so on
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