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#4131 | | inbox, n.: A catch basin for everything you don't want to deal with, but are afraid to throw away.
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#4132 | | incentive program, n.: The system of long and short-term rewards that a corporation uses to motivate its people. Still, despite all the experimentation with profit sharing, stock options, and the like, the most effective incentive program to date seems to be "Do a good job and you get to keep it."
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#4133 | | Incumbent, n.: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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#4134 | | index, n.: Alphabetical list of words of no possible interest where an alphabetical list of subjects with references ought to be.
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#4135 | | Infancy, n.: The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, "Heaven lies about us." The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. -- Ambrose Bierce
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#4136 | | Information Center, n.: A room staffed by professional computer people whose job it is to tell you why you cannot have the information you require.
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#4137 | | Information Processing: What you call data processing when people are so disgusted with it they won't let it be discussed in their presence.
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#4138 | | Ingrate, n.: A man who bites the hand that feeds him, and then complains of indigestion.
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#4139 | | ink, n.: A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. -- H.L. Mencken
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#4140 | | innovate, v.: To annoy people.
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