It all began with: “There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.” It’s awful. But these days, there are soooooo, sooooooo many awful computery jokes to choose from. Such jokes. All the laugh. I’ve been collecting silly nerdy jokes about computers in a sticky for years. Now, you can read some of them! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. Enjoy!
What did the computer have at lunchtime?
A byte
What do computers snack on?
Microchips
There are no shortcuts in life, unless you right click and find one…
Why was there a bug in the computer?
Because it was looking for a byte to eat
Program, noun: A magic spell cast upon a computer to enable it to turn input into error messages.
Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that!
One day, a prince goes to a lair to kill the dragon. The prince cuts off his head but two new heads appear. The prince cuts off the two heads and four appear, after cutting those off 16 appear. Then 32, 64, 128, and finally after the prince cuts off 256 heads the dragon dies. Why?
It was an 8 bit dragon
What’s a programmer’s favorite place to hang out?
Foo bar
Computers let you make more mistakes than any other invention in history. With the possible exception of handguns and tequila.
What do you get when you cross a computer and a life guard?
A screensaver
The closest I’ve been to a diet this year is erasing food searches from my browser history.
I have a huge problem. A friend has placed a screen saver on my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears.
Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one at each end of the cable, and one for the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife burning black candles.
If it weren’t for C, we’d all be programming in BASI and OBOL.
Why did the computer keep sneezing?
It had a virus
What is a computer virus?
A terminal illness
Is the aT symbol lower or uppercase?
Why did the concurrent chicken cross the road?
The side other To to get
Why did Microsoft name their new search engine BING?
Because It’s NOT Google!
Optimist : The glass is half full.
Pessimist : The glass is half empty.
Coder: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
“The cool part about naming you kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.”
-Bill Murray
“I’m not interrupting you, I’m putting our conversation in full-duplex mode.”
– Antone Roundy
C++ and C walk into a bar. C++ tells C it has no class.
WWJD? JWRTFM!
Three developers go into a bar and sit down at a table. The first holds up two fingers and says “Three beers”.
3 developers walk into a NoSQL bar. They left because they couldn’t find a table.
Why did the devops developer quit his job?
He didn’t get arrays
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what they’re doing until it’s too late
How did the computer get out of prison?
Used the escape key
What did the spider make on the computer?
A website
A developer had a problem and decided to use Java. They now have a ProblemFactory.
Once upon a time, a computer programmer drowned at sea. Many were on the beach and heard him cry out, F1! F1!, but no one understood.
What does a proud computer call his little son?
A microchip off the old block.
Algorithm: A word used by programmers when they don’t want to actually explain what it is that they did.
A man shouts “Can you hear me?” to his son. The son says “What happened, did you run out of toilet paper?” The dad then yells back “No, restart the router, please!”
Enumerator? I barely knew her…
How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
None. It’s a hardware problem.
How many UX developers does it take to change a light bulb?
None, they just make darkness a standard and tell everyone “this behavior is by design”
When does a Boolean evaluated expression change a light bulb?
After a while
How many programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None. Lightbulb is a class with method screw() so it can screw itself.
How many technical writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, the customer will figure it out
How many developers does it take to change a light bulb?
You’re still thinking procedurally. A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class, so all you would have to do is call the light-bulb-change method.
How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
None. The light bulb works just fine on the machine at my desk…
How many IT Support people does it take to change a lightbulb?
Have you tried turning it Off and On again?
Child: When I grow up I want to be a Ruby programmer.
Parent: You’ll have to make you’re mind up. You won’t be able to do both.
What’s the object-oriented way to get rich?
Inheritance
The shortest joke about programming:
I’m nearly done!
What are the 2 kinds of SQL developers?
Those who know how COUNT() treats NULLs, those who don’t, and those who don’t care
When your hammer is bash, everything looks like a thumb.
The sign of a compulsive programmer is somebody who can count up to 1023 on their fingers (OMG terrible binary joke)
What do you mean, it needs comments!? If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand–why do you think we call it code?
//motto
if (sad() == true) {sad.stop.();beAwesome();}
Why do they call it hyper text?
Too much Java
Chuck Norris writes code that debugs itself.
A Java architect, a .NET developer, and a COBOL graybeard walk into a bar. The barkeeper does a double-take and says… what is this, some kind of joke?
Why don’t programmers pray?
They don’t like throwing null pointer exceptions!
Save the mallocs, free them all!
[“hip”,”hip”]
Kleeneliness is next to Gödeliness
A programmer puts two glasses on his bedside table before going to sleep. A full one, in case he gets thirsty, and an empty one, in case he doesn’t.
Why did the fly never land on the computer?
He was afriad of the world wide web.
How long does it take to copy a file in Vista?
I don’t know either; I’m still waiting to find out.
Why shouldn’t Facebook have paid $1 billion dollars for Instagram?
They could’ve downloaded it for free!
What do you call a Swedish software developer?
Nerdic
Why did the computer act crazy?
It had a screw loose
RFC 2324: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
When Shakespeare asked “To be, or not to be?”, he did not provide the answer. But 2B |~ 2B is FF
Hardware: The part of a computer that you can kick.
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Why was the JavaScript developer sad?
She didn’t Node how to Express herself
KDE is like eating bugs. It’s all right once you get used to it…
What sits on your shoulder and goes “Pieces of 7! Pieces of 7!”?
A Parroty Error!
XML is like violence. If it doesn’t solve your problem, you’re not using enough of it.
A couple that does SEO work had twins. For the first time they were happy with duplicate content.
What computer sings the best?
A Dell
If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0!
In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them.
What is the difference between a programmer and someone that doesn’t write code?
A non-programmer thinks a kilobyte is 1000 bytes while a programmer is convinced that a kilometer is 1024 meters
What do airports and computers have in common?
Terminals
Two threads walk into a bar. The barkeeper looks up and yells, “hey, I want don’t any conditions race like time last!”
0 is false and 1 is true, right?
1
It’s been said that if you play a Windows DVD backwards, you’ll hear Satanic chanting…worse still if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.
A Turing machine walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “what will you have?” After waiting a while for an answer, the bartender becomes impatient. “Cmon, what’s taking you so long?” The Turing machine replies, “I can’t decide.”
How can you tell the difference between an introverted software engineer and an extroverted software engineer?
The extrovert looks at your shoes when talking to you
I’m nervous about programming in an untyped language—my penmanship is awful!
There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
There’s no place like ::1
I’m not bald, I just have “margin-top: 200px;”
How many consultants does it take to kill a cockroach?
Two: One to hold it still, the other to install Windows on it
What does a baby computer call its father?
Data
There’s a band called 1023MB. They haven’t had any gigs yet.
The word “algorithm” was coined to recognise Al Gore’s contribution to computer science.
Cross platform apps are like unisex underwear.
How do you keep a programmer in the shower all day?
Give them a bottle of shampoo that says “lather, rinse, repeat”
.NET is called .NET so that it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.
Computers are high-speed idiots, managed and developed by by low-speed idiots.
My password is “incorrect” because if I type it in wrong my computer will remind me, “Your password is incorrect.”
Why did the Windows machine lose its trust relationship with the domain?
Because it was corrupted in active directory and needed to be removed and added again!
Old Dvorak had a farm, . c . c r
All programs are poems; not all programmers are poets
Yo momma is so fat, when she sat on an iPod, she made the iPad!
Unix IS user-friendly, it just chooses its friends very carefully
If you put a million monkeys on a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a python script. The rest of them will write bash scripts.
Why can’t computers play tennis?
They just surf the net.
A programmer goes to the store and asks “Do you have brown eggs?”
The clerk says “Yes”
The programmer then says “Then give me 10 sausages, please.”
Waiter: Do u have any questions about the menu?
What kind of font is this?
“Knock, knock. Who’s there?”
very long pause…
“Java.”
What’s Forrest Gump’s password?
1forrest1
Why are Assembly programmers always soaking wet?
They work below C-level.
A SQL statement walks into a bar and sees two tables. It approaches, and asks “may I join you?”
Why is it that programmers always confuse Halloween with Christmas?
Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC
A developer is sent to the grocery store with instructions to “buy butter and see whether they have eggs, if they do, then buy 10.” Returning with 10 butters, the developer says, “they had eggs.”
What happened when the web developers met?
Love at first site!
Why was the computer cold?
It left it’s Windows open
What does a computer scientist wear on Halloween?
A bit-mask
Why do developers go broke?
They use up all their cache
If Java is the answer, it must have been a really verbose question.
Two bytes meet. The first byte asks, “Are you ill?”
The second byte replies, “No, just feeling a bit off.”
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Nothing seems hard to the people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
Why was the computer late to work?
He had a hard-drive.
What do you get when you cross a computer with an elephant?
Lots of memory
What do you call 8 hobbits?
A hobbit
I would tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
An SEO expert walks into a bar, bars, pub, tavern, public house, Irish pub, drinks, beer, alcohol
Computers are like air conditioners, they stop working when you open too many Windows
Who is this Mailer Daemon? And why is he sending my emails back to me?!?!
The man who invented autocorrect has died. His funfair is next Monkey.
I’m sorry for my terrible English, but my native language is Perl.
What is an alien’s favorite place on a computer?
The space bar!
If I wanted a warm fuzzy feeling, I’d antialias my graphics!
Why do Java developers wear glasses? Because they can’t C#
C++, where your friends can touch your private parts.
If brute force doesn’t solve your problems, then you aren’t using enough.
What do you get when you cross a computer with an elephant?
A 1000 lb know-it-all.
Why doesn’t the elephant use the computer?
Because it is afraid of the mouse!
Why did the computer squeak?
Because someone stepped on it’s mouse
Why did the cat sit on the computer?
To keep an eye on the mouse
Why couldn’t the dinosaur play games on the computer?
Because he ate the mouse
Where do all the cool mice live?
Mousepads
Why can’t cats use computers?
Because they only want to chase the mouse
How does a tree get on the computer?
It logs on!
What did the computer say to the cookie?
Can I have your chocolate chip?
A girl asked her mother, a software developer, why the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west. Her response?
It works, don’t touch!
Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code
Yes, I’m sure I used the right password, I saw Bob next to me enter it on his computer.
And then of course, “In order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion.” Now, what are your favorites?!?! And feel free to pop in an image of your favorite shirt as well, like “I failed the Turing Test” or “Go Away Or I Will Replace You With A Very, Very Small Shell Script!”