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• To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
• 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.
• Finagle's Eight Rule: Teamwork is essential . . . it allows you to blame someone else.
• Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else. -- Finagle's Eighth Rule
• For neatness, always draw the curves first, and afterwards plot the data. -- Finagle's Third Rule
• A wizard must always know how to use words. Practice smiling as you recite the following simple exercise.
  First: "The spell has not worked. It is best that you get out of your house before it explodes....
• If at first you don't succeed, go back and study something else.