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#3801 | | 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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#3802 | | Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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#3803 | | 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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#3804 | | Bubble Memory, n.: A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence. See also "vacuum tube".
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#3805 | | Bucy's Law: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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#3806 | | 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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#3807 | | bug, n: A son of a glitch.
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#3808 | | bug, n: An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect. The activity of "debugging", or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed. -- "Datamation", January 15, 1984
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#3809 | | Bugs, pl. n.: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.
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#3810 | | Bumper sticker: All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British manufacture.
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