Recently I was looking for some good programming quotes for one of my presentation. I was amazed to find that there are some good programming quotes that are really funny and need some brains to figure out the fun part.
Programming Quotes
Here are 25 of the funny programming quotes in random order.
- The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. (Anonymous)
- Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. (Louis Srygley)
- Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. (Ralph Johnson)
- The best method for accelerating a computer is the one that boosts it by 9.8 m/s2. (Anonymous)
- I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing. (Oktal)
- If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. (Gerald Weinberg)
- There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. (Alan J. Perlis)
- Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. (Anonymous)
- It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented feature. (Anonymous)
- One man’s crappy software is another man’s full-time job. (Jessica Gaston)
- A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. (Doug Linder)
- Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding
- Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)
- Deleted code is debugged code. (Jeff Sickel)
- Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. (Edward V Berard)
- If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. (Edsger Dijkstra)
- Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for “still doesn’t work. (Anonymous)
- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
- It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, but we also don’t learn from our successes. (Keith Braithwaite)
- There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
- In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. (Anonymous)
- The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there. (Gordon Bell)
- The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. (J. Osterhout)
- The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. (Seymour Cray)
- Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job. (Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering)
So what are your favorite and funny quotes? Please share with all of us.
Lisp in action is like a finely choreographed ballet. Ada in action is like a waltz of drugged elephants. C in action is like a sword dance on a freshly waxed floor.
Failure is due to the neglect of fineness, and success begins with the importance of small things
Software is like cathedrals. First we build them, then we pray.
is great… 🙂 🙂 🙂
Not only have we no longer produced artificial intelligence, we haven’t even produced synthetic stupidity!
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Late to the party here but this is my current favorite, a bastardized version of an older quote concocted by a coworker and I:
There are 2 difficult things in Software Engineering; 1) Naming things 2) Cache Invalidation and 3) Off-by-one errors.
Computer doesn’t make mistake because programmers do it better.
very nice collection of words
keep up the good work
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
― Bjarne Stroustrup
C++, where friends have access to your private members.
“Code never lies, Comments sometimes do.”
If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
public My_Corpse Life(Education ed, Knowledge kn, Passion p, Google g){volatile bool success=true,alive=true; while(alive){while(!success){keeTyring();} Build_repeat();}}
Blame doesn’t fix bugs
We program a human Life by making his/her life easy
Agree!!!!
I cannot function without delegates
Here’s what I came up with.
Don’t treat a semi colon as an end of line but rather as a possibility of a new beginning.
Inspirational right? LOL
Nice!
“I don’t care if it is the ‘proper’ way to do it, I just need to get it done.” <- This is what technical debt sounds like.
“Programming languages are all the same; you just need a logic.” – Joey O.
There are three levels of design: It can be foolproof, Sometimes it can be idiot proof, It can never be asshole proof.
Messy code === incompetence
“VI has 2 modes. One that beeps at you, and another that ruins everything.”
Golden!
One of mine is Profanity: The truly multi-platform programming language.
My favourite one:
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. (Ralph Johnson)
It’s my favorite quote too. This one is also very good: Deleted code is debugged code. (Jeff Sickel)
Me Too!!! Deleted code is debugged code. (Jeff Sickel)
Everyone knows the saying that to the hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Well, when your hammer is C++, every problem looks like a thumb.
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Yep. Its funny. I like quote “The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.” 🙂
These are fantastic
just one other
When the budget is low, go after the low hanging fruit.
Funny and true at the same time 🙂
“In a world without walls…..who needs Windows?”
“All software boils down to pure binary. It works or it doesn’t.”
“Spend two years writing a programe to allow someone do twice the work in half the time…their spare time generatedv will be spent on the phone to IT support.”
I would like to combine one of the typical sentence that a RolePlayer has heard at lest once in his/her life, with something that often happens in programming too…
“Last famous words: No need to manage this case, it will never happen!”
Have a nice day falks!
“Document What You Know When You Know It.”
From book “Framework Process Patterns: Lessons Learned Developing Application Frameworks”
“I’m always skeptical of companies that don’t use their own products.”
https://oracamp.com/case-study-oracles-own-e-business-suite-global-single-instance
“Good design resembles nature.”
https://quotedepot.net/quotations/good-design-resembles-nature/161835
Nice Post, but The Quote :
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Anonymous)”
Is not anonymous this comes from rich cook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Cook)
Thanks friend. Edited the post for this.
It’s not a bug – it’s a feature
— A feature that cannot be turned off is a bug.
It can be turned off upon software termination.
Given enough time, I can meet any software deadline.
Awesome
“To err is human but to really foul things up you need a computer.” (The Economist)
The only way of writing less bugs is writing less code.
fewer bugs…
” It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented feature.”
I think This one always happens. LOL
This makes me remember this joke:
“Did you hear about that new branded MegaSuperComputer?
It returns from an infinite loop just on 6 seconds!”
In Pascal, God is real. Unless you declare it as integer!
(In Pascal, all varables starting a to m are real by default)
Just curious, which flavor are you talking about? I encountered a few flavors of Pascal in my life, and none of them had the feature you mentioned. It sounds more like a Fortran feature in my ears.
Good One 🙂
So Misha, Perl is plenty of problems 🙂
Great Quotes !
software bugs are intentional side effects
My favourite: “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
“I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.”
Dilbert: The prototype is done. Come take a look at the user interface.
Pointy Haired Boss: It works great but make sure this thing is totally idiot-proof.
Dilbert: Again?
“Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one
instruction — from which, by induction, it is evident that every program
can be reduced to one instruction that does not work.” – Ken Arnold.
The one common language across all programmers is profanity.
“There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”- C.A.R. Hoare
a good programmer is master of the computer. The computer is master of the not-so-good programmers.
How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
None, that is a hardware problem!
Was going to say the “10 kinds of people”, since it’s one of my faves, but got beaten to the punch…
I’m not sure it quite fits the category here, but I’ll give ya one of the rules of software development:
“Cheap, fast, reliable: Pick 2”
My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features. (Radial Ronnie)
My personal addition is “The most important word in a programmers vocabulary is ‘should’. e.g. ‘It should work’, ‘we should be able to get that done on time’…” If that doesn’t make sense watch Pitch Black and remember the line “It looks clear”. That should help 🙂
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding)
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. (Doug Linder)
I pretty much love these two quotes. Prettty good Tipps. 🙂 Will keep them in mind during projects.
I submit to this one myself: (the one Steve mentioned)
“Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers – Unknown”
I’m also fond of these
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Anonymous)”
“Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. (Anonymous)”
“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. (Edsger Dijkstra)”
Knock knock!
– Who’s there?
– (long pause) Java!
Knock knock!
– Who’s there?
– C++
Knock knock!
– Assembler!
cool! lol
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers – Unknown
My sig:
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
– Djikstra.
Documentation is like sex: when it’s good – it’s really good, and when it’s not so good – it’s better than nothing.
Software is like cathedrals. First we build them, then we pray.
lol this one is funny..!! :V
I can’t believe that you missed out these two…
“There are 10 kinds of people – those who understand binary and those who don’t”
“Programmers always confuse Halloween with Christmas because OCT 31 = DEC 25”
Not only have we not produced artificial intelligence, we haven’t even produced artificial stupidity!
I came across one not so long ago. “Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that a**l s*x is nice because it works on all genders.”
Question: Why did the multithreaded chicken cross the road?
Answer: other to side. To the get.
https://www.pluralsight-training.net/community/blogs/mike/archive/2004/05/25/415.aspx
Coder: It’s working on My Machine!!
PM: We are not shipping your machine!!