http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TheJargonLexicon.html

Colloquialisms from the computing world

example -

"wave a dead chicken /v./ To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed
software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless
necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of
effort has been expended. "I'll wave a dead chicken over the source
code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare voodoo
programming, rain dance"

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing
- Wernher von Braun

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