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  hat's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern....
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  If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
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• If anything can't go wrong, it will.
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• How many Radio 1 DJs -- does it take to change a light bulb?
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• If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. -- The Nixon principle