Freebsd Fortunes

Brain, n.:
        The apparatus with which we think that we think.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]:
        To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of
error in an opponent.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests,
since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.
                -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"

Bride, n.:
        A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may
revitalize the corner saloon.

British Israelites:
        The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of
Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by
Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further
believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the
Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in
the hand of the Arabs.  They also believe that if you sleep with your
head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.
                -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"

Broad-mindedness, n.:
        The result of flattening high-mindedness out.

Brontosaurus Principle:
        Organizations can grow faster than their brains can manage them
in relation to their environment and to their own physiology:  when
this occurs, they are an endangered species.
                -- Thomas K. Connellan

Brooke's Law:
        Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool
discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it
beyond recognition.

Brooks's Law:
        Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later