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• The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them.
  -- Nicolaide...
• Never try to explain your hacks to a theoretician - he may understand them better than you do.
  -- Dean Daniels, 3/27/83...
• Admit your mistakes before someone exaggerates them for you.
• Finagle's Rules Ever since the first scientific experiment, man has been plagued by the increasing antagonism of nature.
  It seems only right that nature should be logical and neat, but experience has shown that this is not the case....
• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
  -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, _The Little Prince_...
• It is said that cats are untrainable. That is not totally accurate.
  Appearances to the contrary, cats do pay attention to the instructions they receive....
• Finagle's First Law: To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
  Finagle's Second Law: Always keep a record of data -- it indicates you've been working....
• If you really want to annoy your neighbors and worry them no end, cause them to sit up nights in anxiety, than there is but one way to do it.
  Tell the truth about them. Truth needs no embellishment and is always better than any fiction possible....