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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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