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Here's one I've seen around: "Often a few hours of trial and error will save you minutes of looking through manuals."
by hiccuphippo 8y ago
Here's one I've seen around:
"Often a few hours of trial and error will save you minutes of looking through manuals."
- falcor84 8y agoSeems to be a corollary of Frank Westheimer's "A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library".
- tokyodude 8y agoHrm, my experience is quite the opposite. I can read a 2000 page manual which will take weeks because there's no way I can concentrate on all of it and where I probably still won't actually find the answer to my question which is an edge case OR I can just try the edge case and see what happens. If I knew exactly where to look in the manual then the quote might fit but it rarely does.
- senozhatsky 8y agoLove it! Do you happen to know who said it? -ss