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• BFI /B-F-I/ n. See brute force and ignorance. Also encountered in the variants `BFMI', `brute force and massive ignorance' and `BFBI' `brute force and bloody ignorance'.
• brute force and ignorance: n. A popular design technique at many software houses -- {brute force} coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways.
  Dogmatic adherence to design methodologies tends to encourage this sort of thing....
• brute force and ignorance n. A popular design technique at many software houses -- brute force coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways.
  Dogmatic adherence to design methodologies tends to encourage this sort of thing....
• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
  -- Voltaire...
• The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.
• A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. -- Stanislaw Lem
• Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force.
  . . -- Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance...
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• Science is a body of truths which offers clear and certain knowledge about the real world and is therefore superior to traditio
  philosophy, religion, dogma, and superstition which offer shadowy knowledge about an ideal world....