Miscellaneous Collections

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British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.
C...
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 endangered specie...
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 second-to-last bug has ju...
Bugs, pl. n.: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.
BULLWINKLE: "You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit.
GENERAL: "What does that make YOU?" BULLWINKLE: "What else? An executive..." -- Jay Ward...

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