Wise Programmer Quotes to Crack You Up.

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and a dash of irony.


I code, therefore I am... confused most of the time.

I'm a programmer, which means I solve problems you didn't know you had in ways you can't understand.

The irony of a perfect code is that no one believes it exists.

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1. From bugs to puns: Wise Programmer's ironic take on the coding universe.


Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.


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


Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.

-- Michael T. Nygard


In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.


I'm not a hacker, I'm an "undocumented administrator".



2. Binary irony: we speaks the language of sarcastic code.


"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

— Isaac Asimov


Long-term consistency beats short-term intensity.


“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

— Linus Torvalds


Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity; it's the clarity of understanding.


The dirty secret of the tech business is that network effects create natural monopolies and oligopolies. The number two platform often isn’t viable. De-platforming becomes no-platforming.



3. Sarcasm: The only language all programmers speak fluently.


“A senior developer is someone who fluently hates more than one programming language.”


A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

- Alan Turing


"It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way."


Software obeys the law of gaseous expansion - it continues to grow until memory is completely filled.

-- Larry Gleason


My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.

-- P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983





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