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Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms. -- Paul Boutin
PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms -- Andy Grove
I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress -- Douglas R. Hofstadter
Brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms. -- Stephen Colbert
FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. -- Neale Donald Walsch
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for GAY (Got Aids Yet?) . -- Bob Dornan
The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication. -- Elon Musk
JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military -- Catherine Bell
What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms. -- Paul Boutin
Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. -- Paul Vixie
I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym. -- Roy Peter Clark
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. -- Johnnetta B. Cole
TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified. -- Dov Davidoff
Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for... False Evidence Appearing Real. -- Wayne Dyer
Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without. -- Milton Friedman
Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. -- Stewart Dalzell
Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. -- Steven Rattner
Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires -- Helen Zille
I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there...but now we're getting a dose of reality. -- Peter Oppenheimer
Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me. "She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask. "And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked between V'lane and Barrons. "This isn't even about me." "You're wrong about that." Barrons reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone. "You know how to find me if you want me." He was walking away. "More nifty acronyms?" He was gone. -- Karen Marie Moning

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