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~~ 801 to 900 ~~

~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


801. Boyle's Laws: (1) The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.

802. Boyle's Laws: (10) If not controlled, work will to the competent man until he submerges.

803. Boyle's Laws: (11) The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.

804. Boyle's Laws: (12) Talent in staff work or sales will recurringly be interrupted as managerial ability.

805. Boyle's Laws: (13) The think positive leader tends to listen to his subordinates' premonitions only during the postmortems.

806. Boyle's Laws: (14) Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce multiple interpretations.

807. Boyle's Laws: (15) On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

808. Boyle's Laws: (2) When things are going well, someone will inevitably experiment detrimentally.

809. Boyle's Laws: (3) The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

810. Boyle's Laws: (4) Information travels more surely to those with a lessor need to know.

811. Boyle's Laws: (5) An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

812. Boyle's Laws: (6) When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly.

813. Boyle's Laws: (7) The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file.

814. Boyle's Laws: (8) Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan.

815. Boyle's Laws: (9) Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

816. Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages ofmonths andyears. --James Thurber

817. Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages ofmonths andyears.

818. Boys be ambitious!

819. Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

820. Boys will be boisterous.

821. Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. --Kin Hubbard

822. Boys will be boys.

823. Boys will be men.

824. Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

825. 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?

826. Brag is a good dog, but Hold fast is a better.

827. Brain, v. [as in to brain]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

828. Brainpower is the world's scarcest commodity, and the only one of any real intrensic value. Any human organization can be rendered useless, impotent, a danger to itself, by selectively removing its best minds while carefully leaving its stupid ones in place. Stupid fools look just like geniuses until the fighting starts.

829. Brains are nature's way of making sure you live long enough to spawn--if you were a frog. But you're better than a frog. So plan to live longer.

830. Brains aren't everything. In fact, in her case they're nothing.

831. Brave conquerors! for so you are That war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires.

832. Brave? He'll go into the morgue and offer to lick any man in the house.

833. Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

834. Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.--Samuel Johnson

835. Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

836. Bread is the staff of life.

837. Break a bad habit - drop it

838. Break away from your common fashion

839. Break down barriers between departments.

840. Break the ice, I can't take anymore

841. Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! --Walter Scott

842. Breed is stronger than pasture. -- George Eliot

843. Breed up a CROW and he will tear out your eyes.

844. Breeding rabbits is a hare raising experience.

845. Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.

846. Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. --Hosea Ballou

847. Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. --Cicero

848. Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. --Cicero

849. Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

850. Brevity is the soul of wit.

851. Bride, at wedding: Ever since I was a little girl, I've always wanted a prick like my mother's.

852. Bridges were made for wise men to walk over and fools to ride over.

853. Briefcase: A trial where the jury gets together and forms a lynching party.

854. Brien's First Law: At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.

855. Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.from More Programming Pearls

856. Brilliant's Law Of Limited Ambition: If you can't learn how to do it well, learn how to enjoy doing it poorly.

857. Brilliant's Observation On Modern Art: Not all our artists are playing a joke on the public. Some are genuinely mad.

858. Bring a cow to the hall and she'll run to the byre.

859. Bring back the 60's.

860. Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

861. Bring out number weight & measure in a year of dearth.

862. Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

863. Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. --Will Rogers

864. Broad-mindedness, n.: The result of flattening high-mindedness out.

865. Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway. Ethel Merman

866. Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.

867. Brooke's Law: Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.

868. Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

869. Bro's before hoes, women will come and go but friends are forever.

870. Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. --Heywood Broun

871. Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. --Carlos P. Romulo

872. Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.--Cole Porter (1893-1964)

873. Bubble Memory, n.: A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence. See also vacuum tube.

874. Buddhism: If your birthday party was held in the forest and nobody came... would it make a sound?

875. Budget....A method for going broke methodically.

876. Bug: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.

877. Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

878. Build something foolproof and every fool will use it.

879. Building and marrying of children are great wasters.

880. Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.

881. Building is a sweet impoverishing.

882. Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on.

883. Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honour.

884. Bulls do not win bullfights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do.

885. 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...

886. Bummer, said Dougal, realising he was a dog!

887. Bumper sticker on the stealth bomber: "IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THEN WE WASTED 50 BILLION BUCKS."

888. Bumper sticker: Auntie Em: Hate you, hate Kansas, taking dog. Dorothy

889. Buracracy is a challenge to be confronted with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.

890. Bureau Termination, Law of: When a government bureau is scheduled to be phased out, the number of employees in that bureau will double within 12 months after the decision is made.

891. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. -- Laurence J. Peter

892. Bureaucracy rules. If it's OK with the boss.

893. Bureaucrasy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. - Honore de Balzac

894. Bureaucrat, n.: A politician who has tenure.

895. Burglar alarm system's connection box is on the outside wall.

896. Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

897. Burn the politeness.

898. Burning desire is the eternal flame.

899. Burning in my brain, I can feel the pain

900. Burnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.


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