If you have enjoyed our collection of top 50 Linux quotes of all time, I'm sure you would love these funny computer-related quotes that I have put together. Although some of which are pretty old already, they can still tickle a geek's funny bone.Now get ready and enjoy this compilation of my top 50 funny computer quotes:
50. "Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."
49. "Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows."
48. "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
47. "COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."
46. "Artificial Intelligence usually beats natural stupidity."
45. "To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password."
44. "Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error."
43. "If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0"
42. "If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise."
41. "Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."
40. "Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users?"
39. "I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."
38. "See daddy ? All the keys are in alphabetical order now."
37. "Hey! It compiles! Ship it!"
36. "SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."
35. "Yo moma is like HTML: Tiny head, huge body."
34. "Windows Vista: It's like upgrading from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush."
33. "The more I C, the less I see."
32. "Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."
31. "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
30. "The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back."
29. "Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop..."
28. "Relax, its only ONES and ZEROS !"
27. "rm -rf /bin/laden"
26. "I don't care if you ARE getting a PhD in it ! Get away from that damn computer and go find a woman !"
25. "The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."
24. "If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."
23. “Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.”
22. "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."
21. Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."
20. "I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly"
19. The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS !"
18. "If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one."
17. "Better to be a geek than an idiot."
16. "I went to a gentleman's cybercafe — and they offered me a 'laptop dance'."
15. "After Perl everything else is just assembly language."
14. "The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."
13. "There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."
12. "Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."
11. "Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."
10. "1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d"
9. "Helpdesk: There is an icon on your computer labeled "My Computer". Double click on it.
User: What's your computer doing on mine?"
8. “I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.”
7. “If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
6. "Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer."
5. “Any fool can use a computer. Many do.”
4. “Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.”
3. "Those who can't write programs, write help files."
2. "You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary."
1. “Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.”
If you have some favorite funny computer quotes that were not included on my list above, just add or share them with us via comment.


"Just when you think your software is idiot proof, somebody comes up with a better idiot"
Who is General Failure ? And why is he reading my disk ?
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
John von Neumann, circa 1960
Keyboard not found...Press any key to continue.
General Failure is a superior of Major Malfunction, who is searching for Private Files.
windows, problems? reboot! linux, problems? be root!
Computers do precisely what you tell them,
in so far as they are capable of doing it,
but not necessarily what you intended.
(Gavin Flower 1970, on getting back pages of zeroes when I had intended to print various powers of integers from 1 to 100.)
“The Internet? We are not interested in it.”
– Bill Gates, 1993
Microsoft just bought out Hoover vacuum cleaners. When they're through with working it over, they will finally have a project that doesn't suck.
Every bit counts!!!!!
"The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time" - Murphy's Law
haha... loved it... i must be worried i got most of them..
Computers are like Air Conditioners, they stop working when you open Windows.
Heh, thanks. The one about object oriented code, so true its almost not funny.
=)
"640k ..."
Are you sure you want to send 'Internet' to the Recycle Bin ? _Yes_ No
Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning "can't configure Debian"
4 27 39 are the funniest..
lol
Re: 34. "Windows Vista: It's like upgrading from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush."
"Windows XP to Windows 7: It's like upgrading from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, all you get is new window dressing on top of the same old crap."
@General Failure
You forgot me.
Major Error
The program was working fine until you used it.
640k ought to be enough for everyone
About the joke about Microsoft buying Hoover, I loved it so much I made it my signature on my profile on the Ubuntu Forums! :-)
Windows NT, actually means Windows Nice Try.
no kernel panic in jokes, can make some good ones from that
binary joke with 10 types of ppl are great
Hi,
I had translated it in Hindi and posted it here:
http://raviratlami.blogspot.com/2010/02/50.html
Hope, it is OK with you.
Great collection.
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Dare to be differnet?
damn i really need to get out more, i understood all of them :/
Windows NT (NT = Not Today) is was so delayed!
rm -rf /home/computers
Anonymous - I see your 1993 Bill Gates quote and raise you a 1982 one.
...back in 1982 Bill Gates came to see Hermann Hauser, "We showed Bill Gates the Econet network and he said 'What's a network?'", so Acorn were definately on Microsoft's radar, but luckily they didn't know what a radar was either.
Ha ha I really enjoy those quotes
I'm not bisexual. I'm cross-platform.
Toby Haynes - I see your 1982 Bill Gates quote and raise you a 1981 one.
"640k ought to be enough for everyone"
On a clear disk you can seek forever.
There's a worldwide market for 5 computers - IBM
God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER.
I remember a sticker on a boy's backpack...it was something like " don't...(I can't remember the verb!) geeks; they'll help you fix your computer". Who can help?
If u do not have an Email... U do not exist !!!
Software is like sex, it's better when it's free...
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners"
You can't make it 100% idiot proof. God keeps making better idiots.
hilarious quotes.. keep up the good work.
Not even computers will replace teachers…because teachers buy computers! Hehehe...
"Programmers tend to solve problems, but in the other hand they're the one whose making their own problem"