Absolutely Hilarious Computer Quotes

Funny | Life | Geeked by Geek 24 Geeks on 13 June, 2006 - 17:31.

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0"

"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

"unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep" - my daily unix command list

"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate
successful termination of their C programs." - Robert Firth

"If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise."

"The more I C, the less I see."

"To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password."

"After Perl everything else is just assembly language."

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."

“Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” — Michael Sinz

"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - This is not humorous by itself; but in the context it's a classic by Bill Gates in
1981

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer." - Erik Naggum

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."

"Windows95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

"People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong.
Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'."

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 "I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly"

"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light"

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of
handguns and tequila"

"1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d"

"To go forward, you must backup."

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code"

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"Geek's favorite pickup line: Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform? "

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

"Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades."

"The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back."

"It's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages."

"The box said 'Required Windows 95 or better'. So, I installed LINUX."

"Computer are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

"once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary,
over many a strange and spurious site of 'hot xxx galore'.
While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning,
mourning for my dear amour,
" 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"
quoth the server, 404."

"Mac users swear by their Mac,

PC users swear at their PC."

"Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error."

"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as
you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never
expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated

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 and unmaintainable in the end."

"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." -
Linus Torvalds

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that confuse it with
binary."

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate
them for a lifetime."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."

"The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to
the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

"Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."

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computer joke from the spaceage
Geeked by PC_Phantom (not verified) on 28 October, 2007 - 03:15.

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they discovered that pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat
this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 million developing the ball point pen that writes in zero gravity,
upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to
over 300C.

When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil.
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IBM = I Buy Macintosh
Geeked by drdrumm (not verified) on 15 April, 2007 - 18:23.

IBM = I Buy Macintosh

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The nice thing about Windows
Geeked by Demonthises (not verified) on 10 April, 2007 - 02:05.

The nice thing about Windows - it does not just crash; it actually displays a dialogue box and lets you press OK first.

C code. C code run. Run, code, run! PLEASE!

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 A computer program will always do what you tell it to, and seldom what you want it to.

ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

Artificial Intelligence: The art of making real computers act like the ones in movies.

Lisp in action is like a finely choreographed ballet. Basic in action is like a waltz of drugged elephants. C in action is
like a sword dance on a freshly waxed floor.

There are two major products to come out of Berkley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

There are two ways to construct a software design. Make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies; or make it
so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

The world will end in five minutes. Please log out.

WARNING: Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue.

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.

Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)

Hit any user to continue.

Scandisk is now checking your hard drive. You can start praying.

Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.

--- If you cut here, you'll probably destroy your monitor ---

"Coding styles are like assholes, everyone has one and no one likes anyone elses."
--Eric Warmenhoven

"Always program as if the person who will be maintaining your program is a violent psychopath that knows where you
live."
--Martin Golding

"The ultimate metric that I would like to propose for user friendliness is quite simple: if this system was a person, how
long would it take before you punched it in the nose?"
--Tom Carey

“Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that
you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they’re sitting there seemingly
drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the
individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.”
– Charles M. Strauss

“If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.”
– Alan Perlis

“Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You

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 don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know quite where you are.”
– Danny Thorpe

“It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn’t have written it!”
– Mark Andreesen, speaking of the HTML tag BLINK

“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted,
because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.”
– Kevin Mitnick

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean ?"

"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."

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