Overheard

"It is a cliche in [the software] business that the first 90 percent of the work is easy, the second 90 percent wears you down, and the last 90 percent - the attention to detail - makes a good product."

WHO: Ron Avitzur, in The Graphing Calculator Story, about how every PowerPC Macintosh ended up shipping with a program written by people who snuck into the building and worked for free.