Related:

• feature shock n. [from Alvin Toffler's book title "Future Shock"] A user's (or programmer's!
  ) confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material....
• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
  -- Alvin Toffle...
• ALVIN TOFFLER will do it in the future.
• critical mass: n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
  Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus {epsilon} bugs....
• green machine: n. A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that i
  o withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth)....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• Unemployment has gone from quantitative to qualitative. -- Alvin Toffle
• fix: n.,v. What one does when a problem has been reported too many times to be ignored.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• feeping creature: [from {feeping creaturism}] n. An unnecessary feature
  a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features....