Geeky humor

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A couple are a little dated, but still amusing...

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Helpdesk tip #2: When the support analyst says "Click...", wait for the rest of the sentence.

There is an old saying that if an infinite number of monkeys typed on an infinite number of keyboards for an infinite number of years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

A computer programmer is someone who, when told to "Go to Hell," sees the "go to," rather than the destination, as harmful.

Visual Basic makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. VB.Net makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

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Woodpecker analogy of Programming

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If carpenters constructed buildings the way programmers* construct programs, the first woodpecker to come along would have destroyed civilization.

*present company excepted