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#3788 | | Bower's Law: Talent goes where the action is.
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#3789 | | Bowie's Theorem: If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.
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#3790 | | boy, n: A noise with dirt on it.
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#3791 | | Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
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#3792 | | Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"
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#3793 | | brain, n: The apparatus with which we think that we think. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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#3794 | | brain, v: [as in "to brain"] To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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#3795 | | brain-damaged, generalization of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Multics, adj: Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he/she should have known better. Calling something brain-damaged is bad; it also implies it is unusable.
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#3796 | | Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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#3797 | | briefcase, n: A trial where the jury gets together and forms a lynching party.
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