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boardofwisdom.com — 1.There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. 2.If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0 7.I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code 12. Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF All my base Are belong to you

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  • cds0528, on 10/12/2007, -6/+62this was on digg a long, long time ago, but dugg for those who haven't seen it.
    • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23this was on USENET a long time ago, thats how old it is

      5 bucks say the tao of programming hits frontpage within 24 hours
    • raskalz, on 10/12/2007, -15/+941f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
    • jasonhe, on 10/12/2007, -17/+12"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code"
    • mrblack298, on 10/12/2007, -19/+44raskalz, if you can type that, you really need to get laid too.
    • wm2010russ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who have friends.

      :p
    • ruslanr, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7@mrblack

      ever heard of Command (or ctrl) + C, Command (or ctrl) + V ??
    • Tetranitrate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary,
      over many a strange and spurious site of 'hot xxx galore'.
      While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
      " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"
      quoth the server, 404.

      -best quote, bar none
    • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Sadly, I know someone who once tried to teach himself to read Barcode.
    • fofusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ raskalz

      I'd say you need to get laid more for writing that.

      Wait my apologies I wrote this before clicking the link.

      Okay the guy who orignally wrote that needs to get laid.
    • AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d"

      I broke out laughing my ass off on that one. I DO need to get laid. Girl geeks should not need it, but I do, dammit! Ahhhh, January 3rd can't come soon enough.
    • Rorrim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+110 types of ppl in this world:

      1. those who know binary
      10. those who know don't
      10. those who confuse it with ternary.
  • CovardeAnonimo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+203"Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF All my base Are belong to you"

    /me thinking of printing this in a t-shirt, just to see the blank stares from non-geek family members.
  • Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42 Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

    My favorite. :D
    • Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+64Well that was rude and made no sense...
    • snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30And that's 12_chars for a BLOCK.
      So long, *****!
    • zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -13/+412_CHAR => youreawanker
    • dmsean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17RE: 12_char

      take a chill pill man.

      1 t1ink u c4n r34d th15 50 g0 g3t l41d and leave the diggers alone!
    • nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4212_CHARS: Did your mom forget your fruit rollup today? You seem upset muffin. Maybe you should have a nap.
    • e1eongonza1es, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31but i'm le tired
    • nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31ok well first have a nap... zen FIRE ZEE MISSILES!
    • McLumpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@12_CHARS

      The next time you drink a whole bunch of Sunny Delight, please stay away from the internets.
    • lamech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What was he supposed to drink? That purple stuff is rank.
    • KungFuJesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+412 chars should be permabanned from the internet
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This thread has me cracking up.. btw, 12_CHARS, the person who made the comment is actually a girl.. not a guy. Therein lies the irony that she may literally be a *****..
    • bilangew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is the funniest comment thread ever

      +10 for the "End of the world" flash reference! :)
    • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love you Gatesophile!!
      Uh... yeah, 12_chars or whoever is a dick.
    • Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love you too Hindu_Wardrobe! *w00t*
    • Bonekhan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Definitely, but someone needs to revise that for the new XP: now there are dancing dogs and cats too.
  • snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59111. There's no place like 127.0.0.1
    • rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23A couple of classics...

      10 HOME
      20 SWEET
      30 GOTO 10

      C:DOS
      C:DOSRUN
      RUN DOS RUN

      How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
    • brhad56, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20There's no place like ~/
    • CovardeAnonimo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12rompom7: "How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?"

      that would be 57,006 people... (^_^)
    • Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The first one always bugged me when I saw it.. it would be an infinite loop.. HOME SWEET HOME SWEET HOME SWEET.. etc. Not to mention you forgot PRINT.

      The hex one I never understood.
    • Tanath, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8dead = 57005
      57005 + you = 57006
      ;)
    • Haapi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Oh, come on! If we geeks won't do IPv6, then when the rest of the world will *ever* convert?

      There's no place like ::1
  • xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -17/+11"My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards? Darn right, I wanna trade cards, I'll trade this but not my charizard. "

    Lollercoaster.
    • Crosshare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I had not heard that one either. It had me busting up even though it doesn't fall under the "geek" category.
  • grav80bong, on 10/12/2007, -5/+85The 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!!!"

    Come on fellow masturbators, digg this up.
    • nahteecirp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Someone probably should have locked the door.
    • AdamFitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44Not all diggers live at home with their moms.
    • Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Yeah, I live with my dad. Not my mom. :D
    • Brahma, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2That should be the speed of light. No?
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4lmao, WTF is up with 12_CHARS?
    • irvin666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kinda like the joke about what other part of your body becomes sensitive when you masturbate.

      and 12_chars seems to have a tampon stuck on his or hers ass.
  • daxsymbiont, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5go back to /.
  • livejamie, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1BREAKING NEWS
  • burgestr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."

    How sad is it that I started to laugh profusely halfway through that sentence?
  • T-Bird, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ahh, that was a good morning laugh.
  • aranyx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's amazing how many of these are from QDB; although there was some ThinkGeek and TShirtHell shirts mixed in there.
    • brhad56, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Did it ever occur to you that maybe... Just maybe.. that ThinkGeek....oh I dunno... borrowed these phrases from another source?
  • meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -36/+2Seeing as binary expresses 1 and 0, and 0 in binary, unlike decimal, has a meaning (off / false) then surely there's only 1 type of person in the world; those who understand binary and those that don't.

    The 10 would imply two people but doesn't take into account that 0 in binary has a meaning to it.

    Or am i talking nonsense?
    • hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Since it says "10 types of people", yeah, you're talking nonsense.
    • Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1410 means 2 in binary. 00000010 == 2 so therefore 10 == 2 because the preceeding 0s are not needed.
    • Novagenesis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Um... the binary value for 2 is 10. Zero has a meaning of "false" or "zero"
      10 translates to 1(*2) + 0(*1) which means 2.

      If you just said 1, it's still 1... In fact, in almost all number systems used today, 1 === 1. Unless it's in malbolge
    • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Nova, all number systems EXCEPT base one, where 00 is one.
    • brhad56, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think parent is starting from left to right, instead of right to left.

      Here's a handy dandy chart I found to help visualize:
      http://www.dewassoc.com/support/msdos/decimal_hexadecimal.htm
    • meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I know 10 in binary equates to 2 in decimal. It's not the maths that's bothering me, 10dec = 2bin no matter which way you slice it but i get the feeling it can be expressed in another way. I'll explain my thinking differently.

      My reasoning is that you need one person to know binary and one person to not know binary, this is indeed two people. In decimal this *has* to be expressed as the number two and the decimal zero means "null/none/nill".

      Compare this to the binary zero which has a weight and means "false". Completely different concept.

      In binary there are still two people but it can be expressed differently. In this domain, the person that does not know binary can be regarded as false ( 0 ) and the person who knows binary can be regarded as true ( 1 ). As you are now only dealing with 0 and 1, you therefore only need the binary number 1 to represent both these values. This only works as the binary number zero *can* equal "false" which in this domain would mean that the person does not know binary. It's completely disparate to decimal where zero means nothing, in binary it has a meaning.
    • toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@ meatmcguffin:

      It's 10(bin)=2(dec). the sentence is written as (minus parentheses added for clarification): "There are 10(bin) (two) types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't." And is supposed to be read by people who understand binary as "There are 2(dec) (two) types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't." The numbers 1and 0 are not representing the people themselves, or even the number of people, just the number of TYPES of people.
    • meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Sorry, wrote that comment too fast. I mean 10(bin) = 2(dec), i even wrote it that way at the start.

      For a moment, forget the numbers as they are and think about it in terms of logic.

      I'm trying to get at the fact that the number two can be represented in one bit if you assign a true/false value to each group of people based on their knowledge of binary and expressed as a boolean proposition. You either know binary or you don't. If you take this path instead of using two bits to represent the actual number of groups then you could rewrite it as:

      "There is one type of person in the world; those who understand binary and those that don't"

      Of course this uses the binary number one as a symbol representing two binary numbers each of which represents a logical decision, (1 and 0 representing true and false) This *could* apply to the domain if the true/false path is used given that one is the higher of the two numbers, either one of which could apply to the statement, whereas in the original statement it applied to only an absolute number of entities.

      But now my brain is in a knot and i give up! I was only trying to see if it was possible to express this using a logical schema, which is the basis of binary given that the binary zero has a weighting and associated logic, as opposed to absolute numbering where zero is essentially meaningles, by basing the question on a logical basis rather than a numerical one. I still have no idea!
    • lampiaio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11actually, there are 11 types of people in the world: those who know binary, those who don't, and those who are sick of this old joke.
    • Tanath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7How about:
      There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand trinary, those who don't, and those who mistake it with binary. ;)
    • freff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Tanath

      *golfclap*
    • irvin666, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0When I first read that shirt from some girls boobs, I didn't get the joke until she told me.
      Now, if it was read as "010" I would have gotten it. cause then, I would have been like "OH! two people!! not ten, well durrrrrr".

      yeah, I don't get jokes >.>
  • kmb1794, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'm not really techie but I get these quotes. I was hoping for something a little more elitist.
  • dime, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards? Darn right, I wanna trade cards, I'll trade this but not my charizard. "

    This one made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.


    Log off life.
  • frant1c, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23"I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident. I was thinking "What the hell is this guy doing?" - love this one. Bash.org quotes > all.
    • Novagenesis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Guilty. I've got a bunch of half-written compilers sitting on my computer, most of which were written by me. I thought I was looking at GPLed LISP compiler, and complained at how bad the code was........

      it was mine.
  • thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2wheres.. "theres no place like 127.0.0.1"
  • bangmalley, on 08/30/2008, -12/+1"1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d"
    ||()7 3||()(_)&# |_[-[-+...............
  • Dpack1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Though i digg the fact that internet quotes are teh awesomeness it sucks that this site has blantently ripped off quotes from BASH and not even given credit to the person that said the quote or the site itself. Unless i'm mistaken and this 'Unknown' guy says some of the most hilarious things.
    • EvolvedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not everyone on the internet has heard of Basg.org

      It is entirely possible that he could have heard these quotes from elsewhere. For instance, someone who reads his site will now pass on some of those quotes to his friends, who will then pass them on to someone else who also never heard of Bash.org, eventualy one of those friends will make a website and post some of them, only to get yelled at for not giving Bash.org credit.

      See the dilema?
    • vare2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@EvolvedAnt Well, just because one doesnt get caught for stealing, it doesnt make it right for everyone to steal.
    • EvolvedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@vare2

      You can't steal that which noone owns.
  • bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4speaking of bash

    Headshot!!!

    Lee Harvey Oswald is on a killing spree
    Lee Harvey Oswald's killing spree was ended by Jack Ruby
  • naio21, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2***** anti-Microsoft propaganda. Buried as spam.
    • freff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just because so many relevant and funny internet memes involve Microsoft? They have nobody to blame but themselves for that.
  • ybisme, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1these are great.
    dugg.
  • franksands, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24I think these is one of the best:
    "People say that if you play Microsoft CD's backwards, you hear satanic things, but that's nothing, because if you play them forwards, they install Windows."

  • vniow, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Am I the only one who doesn't get the reference to: "Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue..."? :/
  • torrap, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2myquotespace.com
  • ph3rny, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2is the 1.0.7 reference in the description a jab at firefox?
    • JasonQG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There's a space in there. The 7 is the number for the next one.
  • alexguyCA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6what does "1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d" say?
    • bigrodey77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I'm not taking the bait.
    • Istari6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"what does "1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d" say?"

      it says that you're probably getting more action than I am :-)
  • mrminty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I think I've seen all of this stuff on bash.org.
    No telling if that was where it originated, though.
  • bigrodey77, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Number 31 is wrong and I don't have time to elaborate.
  • 6say6ten6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Funny quotes, Horrible web design. Looked like a ***** ripoff of Digg
  • oSiBo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6chown -R us ./base

    ;)
    • skymt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1chown -R us ~you/base
    • inio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2sudo chgrp -R us ~you/base

      'cause, ya know, "us" is plural ;)
  • Sink41, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Thought i'd add one:
    "They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. That's nothing, because if you play it forwards, it installs Windows."


    also "My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard" is from a song (bit nsfw)

    http://media.putfile.com/Pokegangsta
  • Managore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1(Number 51) Never make fun of the geeks, one day they will be your boss.

    - My science teacher, Mr.O'Brian

    Wasn't this originally said by Bill Gates?
    • ph3rny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yes that was on Gate's 11 rules to success or whatever

      there are like five quotes on that page of that specific quote and not one of them references the correct person
  • rjani57, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1who cares if there's some borrowwed from elsewheres. The blogger doesn't claim to have written them, or any. Anyone can submit their quotes - he or she is simply bringing them together. I liked the Geek ones, links to some of the other categories are also good. Digg.
  • appleswitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://bash.org/?top
  • Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1The problem with these are that they are all targetted at the masses. This is the sitcom of computer humor. At least even something as lame as "It's a Layer 8 error." requires you to know what the hell layer 8 is.
  • DTJunkie07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"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." i found this quote at the back of an OLD EGM. It was the last line of fine print after the legal disclaimer thngy.
  • com9898, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You have just received the Amish Computer Virus. Since the Amish don't have computers, it is based on the honor system. So please delete all the files from your computer. Thank you for your cooperation.
  • Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1They forgot one.

    "I will look into that issue."

    Most nerds know the means they wont look into it because they don't care.
  • originalcrush, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
  • ntpd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This program has been brought to you by the language C and the number F.
  • macamatition, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1They forgot nerds saying may the force be with you instead of good luck.
  • KungFuJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4they forgot "640K of RAM oughta be enough for anyone"
  • enesgee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very Cool .. Dugg!
  • clintcarlson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man that's a ***** ugly website. Great example of what NOT to do if you want repeat visitors. Terrible.
  • bilangew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you're too lazy to check out bash.org to see the full quote:

    - Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken.
    - well, you can stil get one from a strange country :-P
  • toddesing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A true geek would have had them listed 0-9.
  • gingernut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1#27 is my favourite:
    "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
    That is so true.
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