Picard: "I think, when one has been angry for a very long time, one
gets used to
it. And it becomes comfortable like...like old leather. And finally...feels
so humiliated one can't remember feeling any other way."
-- "The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6
brute force adj.
Describes a primitive programming style
one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing
power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the
problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive
methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....