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Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
British Israelite
Broad-mindedness, n.: The result of flattening high-mindedness out.
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 endange...
Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it late
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...

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