Freebsd Fortunes

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.

BULLWINKLE: "You just leave that to my pal.  He's the brains of the
            outfit."
GENERAL:    "What does that make YOU?"
BULLWINKLE: "What else?  An executive..."
                -- Jay Ward