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.
Weird never felt so funny. - Updated: 2025-09-13.
1. From bugs to puns: Wise Programmer's ironic take on the coding universe.
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein
The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.
-- Mario Fusco
We build systems like the Wright brothers built airplanes - build the whole thing, push it off the cliff, let it crash, and start over again.
-- Nato Software Engineering Conference '68
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams
One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.
-- Jessica Gaston
2. Binary irony: we speaks the language of sarcastic code.
Hiring bad developers is like drinking seawater. It seems to satisfy a need while actually increasing it.
-- Michael Nygard
One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile.
-- Oscar Godson
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
-- Richard M. Stallman
If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out.
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
-- Tom Cargill
3. Sarcasm: The only language all programmers speak fluently.
When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superflous.
-- Martin Fowler
Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry.
-- Waseem Latif
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
-- Rob Pike
The first step of any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty.
-- Nicoll Hunt
Treat your code like poetry and take it to the edge of the bare minimum.
-- Ilyo