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Bershere's Formula for Failure:
There are only two kinds of people who fail: those who
listen to nobody... and those who listen to everybody.
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beta test, v:
To voluntarily entrust one's data, one's livelihood and one's
sanity to hardware or software intended to destroy all three.
In earlier days, virgins were often selected to beta test volcanos.
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Bierman's Laws of Contracts:
(1) In any given document, you can't cover all the "what if's".
(2) Lawyers stay in business resolving all the unresolved "what if's".
(3) Every resolved "what if" creates two unresolved "what if's".
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Bilbo's First Law:
You cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels.
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Binary, adj.:
Possessing the ability to have friends of both sexes.
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Bing's Rule:
Don't try to stem the tide -- move the beach.
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Bipolar, adj.:
Refers to someone who has homes in Nome, Alaska, and Buffalo, New York.
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birth, n:
The first and direst of all disasters.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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bit, n:
A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color
refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25
cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
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Bizoos, n.:
The millions of tiny individual bumps that make up a basketball.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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