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broad-mindedness, n:
The result of flattening high-mindedness out.
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Brogan's Constant:
People tend to congregate in the back of the church and the
front of the bus.
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brokee, n:
Someone who buys stocks on the advice of a broker.
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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
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Brook's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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Brooke's Law:
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool
discovers something which either abolishes the system or
expands it beyond recognition.
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Bubble Memory, n.:
A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence.
See also "vacuum tube".
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Bucy's Law:
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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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
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bug, n:
A son of a glitch.
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