Programming Jokes / Recent Jokes

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?

It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.