In ANY software project, according to an industry adage, programmers think they are 90% done for about 50% of the time.

用一句行业谚语来说，在任何一个软件工程中，程序员用一半的时间来考虑90%要做的。

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Many say it reflects the communal nature of Japanese society, developed in the rice paddies and reflected in the time-worn adage, "the nail that sticks up will be hammered down."

许多人说，这反映了日本社会的集体天性：“枪打出头鸟。”

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The adage that no publicity is bad publicity is true most of the time.

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The songwriter was just adhering to that old adage of "writing what you know, " having worked as a full-time computer programmer prior to giving the music world a go -- though, as he readily admits, he still keeps it real by coding for his own site.

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At the same time, the old adage that defense wins championships is less true in 2011 than it was in the halcyon days of Red Auerbach's dynastic Celtics of the 1960s--those days of yore when Fortune 500 companies could tell the mainstream media "no comment" when a crisis hit until they figured out their strategy days later.

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