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Burke's Postulates:
Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
Don't create a problem for which you do not have the answer.
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Burn's Hog Weighing Method:
(1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse.
(2) Put the hog on one end of the plank.
(3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly
balanced.
(4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.
-- Robert Burns
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buzzword, n:
The fly in the ointment of computer literacy.
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byob, v:
Believing Your Own Bull
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C, n:
A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like
assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything
else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or
it isn't.
-- Ray Simard
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Cabbage, n.:
A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as
a man's head.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Cache:
A very expensive part of the memory system of a computer that no one
is supposed to know is there.
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Cahn's Axiom:
When all else fails, read the instructions.
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Campbell's Law:
Nature abhors a vacuous experimenter.
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Canada Bill Jones's Motto:
It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
Canada Bill Jones's Supplement:
A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
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