If 99% is good enough, then…

    • 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers.
    • 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
    • 114, 500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.
    • 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year.
    • 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year.
    • 5.5 million cases of soft drinks will be flat.
    • 315 entries in Webster’s dictionary will be misspelled.
    • 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
    • 2 planes landing at Chicago’s O’Hare airport will be unsafe every day.
    • 3,056 copies of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections.
    • 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled each hour.