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Ryan Brown

"Always check your assumptions"
This comes into play best when debugging. Assuming an input has a specific value (or even a value at all), assuming a method is being called, assuming a library works as you think it does, assuming that your deployed code and configuration is as you expected it to be, assuming debug and release will behave the same in all circumstances...