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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- Updated: 2024-11-20.




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


“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.


“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



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


"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


An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it.

-- Meir Lehman


You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It’s worked for many people, and it can work for you.

-- Ron Minnich



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


Increasingly, people seem to interpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion, not admiration. Possibly this results from the mistaken belief that using a mysterious device confers [extra] power on the user.

-- Niklaus Wirth


That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.

-- Paul Leary


So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.

-- Ryan Singer


The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra


Tests are the Programmer's stone, transmuting fear into boredom.

-- Kent Beck





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Brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride of wit, wisdom, and the occasional facepalm-inducing pun. Get ready to laugh, learn, and question the meaning of life, all in one hilarious package!