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• The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct.
• When there appears to be more than one possible solution to a problem, the simplest is most likely to be correct.
• Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
  ) -- William of Occam, Occam's Razo...
• Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate. (Multiplicity is not to be asserted when it is unnecessary.
  ) -- William of Occam [Occam's Razor]...
• If the assumptions are wrong, the conclusions aren't likely to be very good. -- Robert E. Machol
• Bart: OK, it's not _painfully_ clear the adults are _definitely_ paving the way for an invasion by the saucer people.
  Milhouse: You fool! Can't you see it's a massive government conspiracy?...
• It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. -- William of Occam
• That device requiring the most service will be least accessable.
  -- The RPCISPE's Fifteenth Universal Law...
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