Sturgeon's Law/Quotes

"How many dramas have you in France, sir?" said Candide to the Abbé.
"Five or six thousand."
"What a number!" said Candide. "How many good?"
"15 or 16" replied the other [critic].

"What a number!" said Martin.

—Voltaire, Candide

"The animes represent a wide body of entertainment which includes some good stuff, as well as an absolutely incomprehensible amount of shit. Like anything."

—Andrew Hussie, creator of MS Paint Adventures

"Don't feel bad, Homer. Nine out of ten religions fail in their first year."

—God, The Simpsons

"The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does."

—Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

"Nine- tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."

—Benjamin Disraeli