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Wanted: Clever Developer Slogans

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For those of you that have met me in person, you know I have a tendency to wear t-shirts with clever, ironic, and sometimes just arrogant words or artwork on them.  But as I’ve looked around the landscape of the shirts that are being offered anymore, there are very few that truly appeal to software developers.

So, I was thinking about what kinds of sayings, pictures, or bold statements YOU might wear on a t-shirt.  Here’s a few I’ve seen in real life that are in the vein of what I’m looking for:

  • “your phone sucks”
  • “VB6 developers can’t see sharp.”
  • “</head><body>” (right under the neck of the shirt)
  • “I don’t always test my code, but when I do, I prefer to do it IN PRODUCTION.”

What would you put on a shirt?  Please leave your ideas in the comments.  I might even make some of them into real shirts.

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17 responses to “Wanted: Clever Developer Slogans”

  1. Jonathan Baltz Avatar

    “It works on my machine.”

  2. Jason Gleim Avatar
    Jason Gleim

    I eat pieces of code like you for breakfast!

  3. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    A guy in the local user group had a shirt made w/ the classic staredad (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/staredad) with the caption Stacktrace or GTFO.

  4. Jeff Bramwell Avatar

    Along the lines of your second example above, I once saw something to the extent of – “I’d rather be seen as a SHARP developer rather than a BASIC developer.”

  5. Justin Kohnen Avatar

    I want to make sure the classics get in the mix:

    “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1”

    “There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t”

    “I’m not slacking off. My code’s compiling”

    “SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Clue > 0 — No Records Found”

    “Go away or I will replace you with a small shell script.”

    Some new ones:

    “I could have been a model. But I wanted to make more money.”

    “Oh you have a great software idea that will make millions?”
    Image: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/210/119/+_2acc5a8841f8752904d37f90a8014829.png

  6. Robert Avatar

    My personal favorite is still this one:
    /* no comment */

  7. Robert Avatar

    Another classic, similar along the one mentioned before, but a bit more subtle:

    1+1=10

  8. Anand Malli Avatar
    Anand Malli

    Developers don’t write the code, they DEBUG it.

  9. ShortM Avatar
    ShortM

    “Don’t worry, be Appy!”(on a smartphone screen)

  10. Dave Swersky Avatar

    “Dying is easy, recursion is hard.”

  11. Mark Downie Avatar

    Why all Pascal programmers ask to live in Atlantis?
    Because it is below C level.

  12. John Michael Hauck Avatar

    just await a minute

    linqedin

    there’s no i in metro (where the i is in italics)

    aw8

    int¿ is Gullable

    try dynamic – its the new var

  13. Brian Hartung Avatar
    Brian Hartung

    In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

  14. Brian Hartung Avatar
    Brian Hartung

    Embarrassingly serial.

  15. Brian Hartung Avatar
    Brian Hartung

    There is no try. Only unhandled exception.

  16. rahul dubey Avatar
    rahul dubey

    Pfb…
    Code red is when vs shows lot of red lines in code…
    Fun begins when coding ends…

  17. james Avatar
    james

    serialize this.

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