Thursday, 2 July 2015

What are some of the best, most suiting Bugzilla quips you've seen?

Okay. This was actually a thread I found on Reddit and while there is a lot of humor attached to it, it brings out some silly truths about the Code profession.
  • There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
  • To iterate is human; to recur, divine.
  • There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
  • I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am
  • Operating Systems are like girlfriends. You can usually do different, but it's hard to do better.
  • Project Management is the technical discipline that tells us that nine women can make a baby in one month, yet still misses the requirement of at least one man on the project.
  • Any program that runs right is obsolete.
  • Compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source.
  • Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
  • If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0.
  • To be, or not to be, those are the parameters.
  • You are making progress if each mistake is a new one.
  • A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
  • Confidence is the feeling you have before you really understand the problem.
  • 0 bottles of beer on the wall, 0 bottles of beer! You take one down, and pass it around, 4294967295 bottles of beer on the wall!
  • On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'
  • Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
  • The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.
  • If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
  • To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
  • Some people are like Slinkies ... not really good for anything, but you can't help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.
  • I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted pay checks.
  • I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
  • Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
  • You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
  • When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
  • He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he's copied on /var/spool/mail/root, so be good for goodness' sake.
  • A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t.
  • According to my calculations the problem doesn’t exist.
  • After all is said and done, more is said than done.
  • I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.
  • Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
  • programmer, n. an organism that can turn caffeine into code.
  • Testing is the infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.
  • Some people say "If you can't beat them, join them". I say "If you can't beat them, beat them", because they will be expecting you to join them, so you will have the element of surprise.
  • Laugh at your problems, everybody else does.
  • I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
  • A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.
  • Haikus are easy. But sometimes they don't make sense. Refrigerator.
  • Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  • Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
  • Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
  • Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
  • How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, that's a hardware problem.
  • A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says "Five beers, please."
  • How do you know if someone grew up in New York City? Don't worry, they'll tell you.
  • The thing about UDP jokes is I don't care if you get them or not.
  • If at Last You Do Succeed, Never Try Again.
  • This shirt is "dry-clean only"...which means it's dirty.
  • If I have not seen as far as others it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
  • We need a longer-term temporary solution.
  • If I had a dollar for every bug I fixed, I'd have a much lower salary!
  • If somebody calls you a resource, start calling them overhead.
  • c++: where friends have access to your private members.
  • To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
  • If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a C++ program. The rest of them will write Perl programs.
  • A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, "Can I join you?"
  • There are two types of people; those who can extrapolate from incomplete information
Aside these, what other quips have you seen that actually struck you?

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