Top 20 List of the Best Geek Quotes, Sayings and Phrases

For all the geeks out there, do you know someone who tried to teach themselves how to read Barcode? Here is a list of Geek quotes, sayings and phrases. Some of them are from Boardofwisdom who put together a nice compilation themselves.

#1. Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF. All my base Are belong to you  — someone on SlashDot

#2. There is no place like 127.0.0.1

#3. Girls are like Internet Domain names, the ones I like are already taken

#4. 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

#5. Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. — Albert Einstein

#6. There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don’t.

#7. If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0

#8. 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d 

#9. I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user friendly

#10. I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code

#11. My Software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

#12. The speed of sound is defined by the distance from door to computer divided by the time interval needed to close the media player and pull up your pants when your mom shouts “OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!

#13. The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it’s twice as big as it needs to be. 

#14. Passwords are like underwear. You shouldn’t leave them out where people can see them. You should change them regularly. And you shouldn’t loan them out to strangers

#15. Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue… 

#16. A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those? 

#17. I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident. I was thinking “What the hell is this guy doing?”

#18. Concept: On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape button.

#19. Alert! User Error. Please replace user and press any key to continue

#20. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. — Weinberg’s Second Law

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19 Responses to “Top 20 List of the Best Geek Quotes, Sayings and Phrases”

  1. Top 20 List of the Best Geek Quotes, Sayings and Phrases | Ajit Gaddam: TechNews and Security on January 30th, 2007 10:55 am

    [...] Original Article on AskStudent: Top 20 Geek Quotes and Phrases [...]

  2. Jesus on April 16th, 2007 3:26 pm

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  3. DR. INTERNETZ on December 6th, 2008 1:05 am

    JESUS DOES NOT APPROVE D=

  4. Alejandro on December 6th, 2008 12:11 pm

    Brilliant list,
    I had actually read most of these individually in other blogs, but never in such a great list,

    Keep it up :)

  5. reindeer47 on December 6th, 2008 5:03 pm

    Nice list indeed, a lot of them I didnt knew. :)

  6. DR. INTERNETZ on December 7th, 2008 3:05 am

    HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS

  7. n00b on December 7th, 2008 6:33 am

    this list is photoshopped

  8. zzz on December 7th, 2008 11:00 am

    lame, its not 1997 anymore.

  9. Ashley on December 7th, 2008 4:13 pm

    Alert: A prime Article

  10. jasen on December 10th, 2008 1:34 am

    Imaginable worse geek quotes!! thumbs up!!

  11. Rockstar on December 10th, 2008 7:47 am

    Hey that was nice list of quotes

  12. 20 de citate on December 12th, 2008 1:46 pm

    [...] Girls are like Internet Domain names, the ones I like are already [...]

  13. me,myself nor i on December 14th, 2008 4:45 pm

    @8, the last word i think is laid, but as my english is real bad, can someone say a synonym for that…. xD (no please don’t laugh at me) (or i delete all your Excel files, you know, those .exe’s…..)

  14. me,myself nor i on December 14th, 2008 4:48 pm

    ah my thesaurus worked again…. and now you can laugh at me i think….

  15. Brandon on December 15th, 2008 8:14 pm

    Im not going to laugh because u couldnt read 1337. Im going to laugh because u think Excel files are .exe. Its .xls moron.

  16. Brijesh on December 15th, 2008 9:47 pm

    My personal quote: “I remember everything, but not all at the same time. The old virtual memory problem you know.”

  17. Top 20 List of the Best Geek Quotes, Sayings and Phrases - Total Format Forums on December 16th, 2008 8:43 am

    [...] then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. — Weinberg’s Second Law source rofl [...]

  18. Antonia on December 16th, 2008 3:03 pm

    #3- on bash.org the response is “But you can still get one from a strange country” :D

  19. Neil on December 18th, 2008 9:33 am

    haha some of them i have actually heard, great collection, thumbs up ;)

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