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Ken Thompson's Maxim: When in doubt, use brute force.

I knew an old-time naval engineer who used to live by "If you've tried brute force and it didn't work, you just didn't use enough brute force"... ;-)

I used to work with a former Navy nuclear engineer who quipped "Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a piece of chalk, and cut it with an axe."