Linux Definitions

briefcase, n:
        A trial where the jury gets together and forms a lynching party.

broad-mindedness, n:
        The result of flattening high-mindedness out.

Brogan's Constant:
        People tend to congregate in the back of the church and the
        front of the bus.

brokee, n:
        Someone who buys stocks on the advice of a broker.

Brontosaurus Principle:
        Organizations can grow faster than their brains can manage them
        in relation to their environment and to their own physiology:  when
        this occurs, they are an endangered species.
                -- Thomas K. Connellan

Brook's Law:
        Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Brooke's Law:
        Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool
        discovers something which either abolishes the system or
        expands it beyond recognition.

Bubble Memory, n.:
        A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence.
        See also "vacuum tube".

Bucy's Law:
        Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Bug, n.:
        An aspect of a computer program which exists because the
        programmer was thinking about Jumbo Jacks or stock options when s/he
        wrote the program.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.
                -- Ray Simard