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Bore, n.:
A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Boren's Laws:
(1) When in charge, ponder.
(2) When in trouble, delegate.
(3) When in doubt, mumble.
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boss, n:
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the Middle Ages the
words "boss" and "botch" were largely synonymous, except that boss,
in addition to meaning "a supervisor of workers" also meant "an
ornamental stud."
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Boucher's Observation:
He who blows his own horn always plays the music
several octaves higher than originally written.
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Bower's Law:
Talent goes where the action is.
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Bowie's Theorem:
If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.
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boy, n:
A noise with dirt on it.
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Bradley's Bromide:
If computers get too powerful, we can organize
them into a committee -- that will do them in.
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Brady's First Law of Problem Solving:
When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more
easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger
have handled this?"
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brain, n:
The apparatus with which we think that we think.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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