['My Eyes Glaze Over', often 'Mine Eyes
Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn]
Also 'MEGO factor'. 1. n. A handwave intended to confuse the
listener and hopefully induce agreement because the listener does
not want to admit to not understanding what is going on. MEGO is
usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a
high proportion of TLAs.
2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics.
3. Among non-hackers this term often refers not to
behavior that causes the eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing
reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat of
technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it.
