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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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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"
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brain-damaged, generalization of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a
theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in
Multics, adj:
Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication
that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage,
because he/she should have known better. Calling something
brain-damaged is bad; it also implies it is unusable.
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Bride, n.:
A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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