Programming Jokes / Recent Jokes

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.

Hinds' Law Of Computer Programming: 1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete. 2) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. 3) If a program is useless, it will have to be documented. 4) Any given program will expand to fill all available memory. 5) The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output. 6) Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it. 7) Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.