• Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue.
• Press any key to continue or any other key to quit…
• Smash forehead on keyboard to continue…
• ”Intel Inside”: The world’s most commonly used warning label.
• Printer not ready. Do you have a pen?
• A bad random number generator: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4.33e+67, 1, 1, 1…
• Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
• Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue…
• All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
• A good programmer makes all the right mistakes.
• Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred…?
• If engineers built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
• A computer scientist is someone who, when told to ’Go to Hell’, sees the ‘go to’, rather than the destination, as harmful.
• FATAL ERROR! SYSTEM HALTED! – Press any key to do nothing…
• There are two ways to write error-free programs.
Only the third one works.
• A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.
• A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.
• Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for ‘still doesn’t work.‘
• Computer analyst to programmer: You start coding. I’ll go find out what they want.
• Computer Science: solving today’s problems tomorrow.
• If your computer says: Printer out of Paper, this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the ‘OK’ button.
• It said: ‘Insert disk 3…’ but only 2 fit in the drive.
• Microsoft Windows: computing While U Wait.
• My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
• 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. - Rich Cook
• Intel: We put the ‘um…’ in Pentium.
• Helpdesk tip #2: When the support analyst says: ’Click… ‘, wait for the rest of the sentence.
• BREAKFAST.COM Halted… Cereal Port Not Responding.
• 1010011010 – The binary number of the Beast
• 1332 – The number of two Beasts
• A program is a device used to convert data into error messages.
• A)bort, R)etry, I)nfluence with large hammer.
• Never execute code written on a Friday or a Monday.
• File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
• ”If the Start Windows Restart when Windows starts check box is checked Windows Restart will start automatically every time Windows is started.”
- Actual excerpt from a windows program help file!
[Source: Various]

