Freebsd Fortunes

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

Brucify, v:
       1: Kill by nailing onto style(9); "David O'Brien was brucified"
       2: Annoy constantly by reminding of potential improvements
          [syn: {torment}, {rag}, {tantalize}, {bedevil}, {dun},
          {frustrate}]
       3: Fix problems that were indicated in an earlier brucification
          (of one of the two other meanings).
The word 'brucify' originally comes from the style-reviews of Bruce
Evans of the FreeBSD project, but is now also sometimes used for
reviews just done in his spirit.

Bubble Memory, n.:
        A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's
intelligence.  See also "vacuum tube".

Bucy's Law:
        Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Bug, n.:
        An aspect of a computer program which exists because the
programmer was thinking about Jumbo Jacks or stock options when s/he
wrote the program.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.
                -- Ray Simard

Bugs, pl. n.:
        Small living things that small living boys throw on small
living girls.