Linux Definitions

insecurity, n.:
        Finding out that you've mispronounced for years one of your
        favorite words.

        Realizing halfway through a joke that you're telling it to
        the person who told it to you.

interest, n.:
        What borrowers pay, lenders receive, stockholders own, and
        burned out employees must feign.

Interpreter, n.:
        One who enables two persons of different languages to
        understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to
        the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

intoxicated, adj.:
        When you feel sophisticated without being able to pronounce it.

Iron Law of Distribution:
        Them that has, gets.

ISO applications:
        A solution in search of a problem!

Issawi's Laws of Progress:
        The Course of Progress:
                Most things get steadily worse.
        The Path of Progress:
                A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

It is fruitless:
        to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lactate fluid.

        to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with
        innovative maneuvers.

"It's in process":
        So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless.

italic, adj:
        Slanted to the right to emphasize key phrases.  Unique to
        Western alphabets; in Eastern languages, the same phrases
        are often slanted to the left.