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• To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start. -- Finagle's First Rule
• 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....
• 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....
• The best way to learn a new subject or skill is to study small segments or details in great depth rather than to start by trying to develop a sense of the whole.
• Before you start anything, make sure you can finish it.
• What's the matter? Can't you read? Now you'd best start over.
• Confidence is the feeling you get just before you fully understand the problem.
• Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.