Two bytes meet. The first byte asks, âAre you ill?â
The second byte replies, âNo, just feeling a bit off.â
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Eight bytes walk into a bar. The bartender asks, âCan I get you anything?â
âYeah,â reply the bytes. âMake us a double.â
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Q. How did the programmer die in the shower?
A. He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
None â Itâs a hardware problem
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Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?
Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25.
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There are only 10 kinds of people in this world: those who know binary and those who donât.
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A programmer walks to the butcher shop and buys a kilo of meat. An hour later he comes back upset that the butcher shortchanged him by 24 grams.
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âKnock, knock.â
âWhoâs there?â
very long pauseâŚ.
âJava.â
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Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.
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A man is smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke rings into the air. His girlfriend becomes irritated with the smoke and says, âCanât you see the warning on the cigarette pack? Smoking is hazardous to your health!â
To which the man replies, âI am a programmer. We donât worry about warnings; we only worry about errors.â
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There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.
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A programmer is walking along a beach and finds a lamp. He rubs the lamp, and a genie appears. âI am the most powerful genie in the world. I can grant you any wish, but only one wish.â
The programmer pulls out a map, points to it and says, âIâd want peace in the Middle East.â
The genie responds, âGee, I donât know. Those people have been fighting for millennia. I can do just about anything, but this is likely beyond my limits.â
The programmer then says, âWell, I am a programmer, and my programs have lots of users. Please make all my users satisfied with my software and let them ask for sensible changes.â
At which point the genie responds, âUm, let me see that map again.â
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All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
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Have you heard about the new Cray super computer? Itâs so fast, it executes an infinite loop in 6 seconds.
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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âI just saw my life flash before my eyes and all I could see was a close tagâŚâ
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The computer is mightier than the pen, the sword, and usually, the programmer.
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Debugging: Removing the needles from the haystack.
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Two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, âSo whatâll it be?â
The first string says, âI think Iâll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcuâ
âPlease excuse my friend,â the second string says, âHe isnât null-terminated.â
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From the Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary:
Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.
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The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware engineer with a software patch, and a user with an idea. â The Wizardry Compiled by Rick Cook
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One hundred little bugs in the code
One hundred little bugs.
Fix a bug, link the fix in,
One hundred little bugs in the code.
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A computer science student is studying under a tree and another pulls up on a flashy new bike. The first student asks, âWhereâd you get that?â
The student on the bike replies, âWhile I was studying outside, a beautiful girl pulled up on her bike. She took off all her clothes and said, âYou can have anything you wantâ.â
The first student responds, âGood choice! Her clothes probably wouldnât have fit you.â
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CIA â Computer Industry Acronyms
CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
PCMCIA: People Canât Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
SCSI: System Canât See It
MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
DOS: Defunct Operating System
WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
PnP: Plug and Pray
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
LISP: Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse.
WYSIWYMGIYRRLAAGW: What You See Is What You Might Get If Youâre Really Really Lucky And All Goes Well.
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Why computers are like men:
Why computers are like women:
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Laws of Computer Programming
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A programmer finds himself in front of a committee that decides whether he should go to Heaven or Hell. The committee tells the programmer he has a say in the matter and asks him if he wants to see either Heaven or Hell before stating his preference.
âSure,â the programmer replies. âI have a pretty good idea what Heaven is like, so letâs see Hell.â So an angel takes the programmer to a sunny beach, full of beautiful women in skimpy bikinis playing volleyball, listening to music and having a great time. âWow!â he exclaims, âHell looks great! Iâll take Hell!â
Instantly the programmer finds himself in red-hot lava with demons tearing at his flesh. âWhereâs the beach? The music? The women?â he screams frantically to the angel.
âThat was the demo,â the angel replies as she vanishes.
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Jesus and Satan have an argument as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest with God as the judge. They set themselves before their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several hours straight.
Seconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity. Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over. He asks Satan to show his work. Visibly upset, Satan cries and says, âI have nothing. I lost it all when the power went out.â
âVery well,â says God, âlet us see if Jesus has fared any better.â
Jesus presses a key, and the screen comes to life in vivid display, the voices of an angelic choir pour forth from the speakers.
Satan is astonished. He stutters, âB-b-but how?! I lost everything, yet Jesusâ program is intact! How did he do it?â
God chuckles, âEverybody knows⌠Jesus saves.â
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Redneck Computer Terms
LOG ON: Makinâ a woodstove hot.
LOG OFF: Donât add no more wood.
MONITOR: Keepinâ an eye on the wood stove.
DOWNLOAD: Gittinâ the farwood off the truck.
MEGA HERTZ: When youâre not keerfull gittinâ the farwood.
FLOPPY DISC: Whutcha git from trying to tote too much farwood.
RAM: That thar thing whut splits the farwood.
HARD DRIVE: Gittinâ home in the winter time.
WINDOWS: Whut to shut when itâs cold outside.
SCREEN: Whut to shut when itâs black fly season.
BYTE: Whut them dang flys do.
CHIP: Munchies fer the TV.
MICRO CHIP: Whutâs in the bottom of the munchie bag.
MODEM: Whutcha do to the hay fields.
DOT MATRIX: Old Dan Matrixâs wife.
LAP TOP: Whar the kitty sleeps.
KEYBOARD: Whar you hang the dang truck keys.
SOFTWARE: Them dang plastic forks and knifes.
MOUSE: Whut eats the grain in the barn.
MOUSE PAD: Thatâs hippie talk fer the mouse hole.
MAINFRAME: Holds up the barn roof.
PORT: Fancy Flatlander wine.
ENTER: Northerner talk fer, âCâmon in, yâall.â
CLICK: Whut you hear when you cock your gun.
DOUBLE CLICK: When the dang gun donât far when you pull the trigger.
REBOOT: Whut you have to do at bedtime when you forgot the kittyâs still outside.
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Software Development Cycles
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Top 10 phrases spoken by a Klingon Programmer
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The programmer compiled an array of reasons as to why he canât find a girlfriend with a good <HEAD> on her <BODY>, reason 0 being that he has limited cache. So he searches his memory to recall connecting to the TCP/IP tunnel of his last girlfriend â sometimes even without a secure socket. His last girlfriend always complained about his lack of comments. He fumed, âI hate commenting!â Realizing it was a program requirement, he told her she had nice bits. This resulted in a Syntax Error. Now she demanded a massage, but this was rejected as âFeature Creep.â He smacked her back-end and shouted, âWhoâs your parent node?!â He scanned for open ports. He attempted to install a backdoor worm but her response was 403. While his data uploaded into her input device, she considered terminating the process. But instead she initiated a Do While loop where she recalled a previous boyfriend with a larger pointer. To expedite the routine routine, she screamed, âHack into my system! Hack deep into my system! Youâre 1337, baby!â This caused his stack to overflow, and he shot his GUI on her interface. (Source)