humour "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90%
of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code
accounts for the other 90% of the development time".
An aphorism attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs, and
popularised by Jon Bentley's September 1985 "Bumper-Sticker
Computer Science" column in "Communications of the ACM". It
was there called the "Rule of Credibility", a name which seems
not to have stuck.
(1995-07-14)