"Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output."

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My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things, some of the pieces I've used there, when I first wrote them, they seemed probably very menacing, and I hear them now, and they're just kind of pleasant, if that's the word.

— Richard Meltzer