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+87  A: 
ZombieSheep
haha... cool one!
Adhip Gupta
I really need to get one of these...
Farinha
I want it. i'm tired of ppl bringing me old comps to fix. I almost want to tell them its not fixable, go buy a new one so i don't have to see it in 2 months
WalterJ89
I've got this tshirt. Whenever someone who I haven't heard from in a while unexpectedly invites me round for dinner, I always wear this :)
Rob Levine
Wore this on my xmas doo :)
Pace
I actually have this one.. But when you wear it, people will remember, and ask you to fix your computer when you wear your another geek shirt.. Its better to say you are a pilot!
Arcturus
+14  A: 
Bill the Lizard
I happen to own this one. Have to be careful the audience though. Some folks have no idea what it means. ;)
Abyss Knight
Isn't that the point? *g*
OregonGhost
@Abyss Knight - I hadn't even thought of that! Funny the assumptions you make when you're in one domain for so long. :)
Bill the Lizard
This will get you slapped in Australia. heh heh
CAD bloke
My very favorite sweatshirt - it helps filter who's who :)
scraimer
Yeah me too - here in Scotland someone once asked me if it refered to some new street drug.
Cruachan
+41  A: 
OregonGhost
that is kickass!
Bryan Denny
no dang way! that is the coolest thing I've seen all week!
Jared Updike
+93  A: 
moonshadow
One of my TAs has this shirt... and about 100 other programmer joke shirts.
TM
Tagged as belongs-on-serverfault
Aardvark
+62  A: 
Gamecat
Shouldn't this shirt just say "reenigne" ?
Joe Lencioni
Does a reverse engineer see a reverse psychologist when he is depressed?
1800 INFORMATION
Nah, I'm never depressed, I'm only reading disturbing code.
Gamecat
A: 

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't."

Laura
That should be: "There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand ternary, those who don't and those who mistake it for binary". Recently read it somewhere on stackoverflow :)
OregonGhost
haha.. I just posted that same thing a few posts above! :)
Adhip Gupta
There are x kinds of people in the world - those who understand base x, all the kinds who think there are (x-1) kinds of people, and those who can't count. ;) –
moonshadow
there are two types of people in the world - those who understand recursion and there is one type of person in the world.
Omer van Kloeten
10 kinds? What about the other 1000 ?
some
I'm wearing that shirt right now!
Zifre
+5  A: 
Dave Ganger
R.I.P. Douglas Adams.
Matias Nino
Yup... ever tried http://www.google.co.in/search?q=the+answer+to+life,+the+universe,+and+everything ?
Adhip Gupta
Myrrdyn
How many roads must a man walk down?
unkiwii
DNA FTW:) But still it's not really a programmer shirt, just a geek shirt.
Oorang
+12  A: 
Jason Etheridge
Like that. Unfortunately ThinkGeek's shipping is not particularly cheap, if living in the EU ;)
OregonGhost
+5  A: 
Daok
+99  A: 
Michael Stum
Nice. This comment is enough social interaction for one day.
OregonGhost
Cool, This reply is enough social interaction for one day.
Ólafur Waage
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-... mm.. i don't remember any more.. ja.. i'm just amazed of how much people have this copy of Windows.
unkiwii
Anyone who's gone to a few tech eds has WAY too many visual studio t-shirts.
Aardvark
Am I the only one who always, unconsciously, hears "FCKGW" pronounced as 2 English words? (The 2nd one is "Windows")
Adam Liss
I always heard the last word as "Gateway"
Stuart Branham
+5  A: 
Daok
+99  A: 

I'm a real programmer. I'm too fat to wear t-shirts.

Robert S.
my sentiments exactly!
Mark Lubin
Favourite programmer muu-muu, then?
Rob Howard
that made me laugh thanks for this one!
Johannes
+103  A: 
WolfmanDragon
I like this one more... There are 10 types of people in the world: those who can read ternary, those who can’t and those who mistake it for binary!
Adhip Gupta
I have this one ...
John Rudy
This is a classic
Farinha
I have this one too!
milot
only 101 up votes ...
h3xStream
+46  A: 
Daok
a rare clever t-shirt with a well-thought out front, back and content! LOL
DarenW
+12  A: 
Rudi
+48  A: 

This shirt:

Based on this comic:

BoltBait
You can get that on a shirt at http://store.xkcd.com/. You may want to grab the real images...
Jack Bolding
Wait... someone downvoted me on a subjective question? What a jerk!
BoltBait
maybe they didn't know it was a shirt
shogun
Or maybe they just didn't like the shirt... isn't that what the down vote is for? (for the record, I do like it)
Turambar
I'm wearing this shirt right now!
PatrickJ
+128  A: 
ZombieSheep
This one is only nice on this model haha
Daok
Incoming votes for boobs in 5 4 3 2...
Robert S.
Upvoting boobs. For a site with "stack" in the name, there sure aren't many pictures of boobs here.
Mike Powell
There are quite a few in this post! ;)
Adhip Gupta
Wonder why this got down-voted. *confused*
ZombieSheep
We need more pictures of boobs
cciotti
Blue Screens have never been better. Up-voted.
moffdub
man, i wish MY windows would "boobscreen" like that ... i'd have it crash ALL DAY LONG! :)
steffenj
or you could rightfully say: i have a crash on this girl ... ;)
steffenj
This, right here, these comments are why programmers have a bad reputation.
stalepretzel
@scottjames: cheap, but funny :)
annakata
These comments really reflect the demographics of the site :P
bigmonachus
If that was low cut, would it be a stack overflow?
Skizz
No mention of dual-boobing, err, booting?
Jonathan Sampson
@stalepretzel bad reputation? Quite a lot of people have reputation in the 10s of thousands. ;-)
jae
I comment for BLUE SCREEN of death!
effkay
I love BSOD....
zengr
@stalepretzel these comments also reflects the lack of programmer girls on the field...
JuanZe
+73  A: 

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

Robert S.
Hot girls always get modded up . . .
cciotti
Yeah, a girl like that would wear that shirt...
moffdub
I want to see one with: "There's no place like localhost" "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" "There's no place like ::1"
Brad Gilbert
Think geek used to/have these printed on female panties as well.
Cory Dee
There's no place like localhost? That doesn't make a lick of sense. It SHOULD read: "There's no place like ~".
chazomaticus
Um, it's "home." As in, the machine you're on.
Robert S.
mm... i want to go to her 127.0.0.1 :P
alex
I actually do like ~ better, but it almost seems /more/ nerdy - to the extent where not even many self-proclaimed nerds will get it. I think I like it that way :)
Matchu
well, Im not a native english speaker - but couldn't this actually semantically mean: "There is no better place than home"?
Gnark
+66  A: 
dmeister
the only one that made me LOL :-)
Jonathan Rauch
Damn, I want that one! :<
Peter B. Bock
You can also make a "you complete me" joke with this one before the "let's cons."
mandaleeka
I need to ask one of my buddies at Berkeley to get one of these for me.
Don Werve
Picture of hot girl with geeky t-shirt. Then a picture of her shirt. Now we need another pic of the hot girl :->
Commander Keen
This is awesome. Truly geeky.
Beska
+18  A: 
Bob Somers
haha, yes that's it! only mine was light blue.
Kon
I love the un-intended finger
ceretullis
can you post a link please?
Kyle Trauberman
had one in light blue that i wore to a job interview (i got it)
Triptych
+106  A: 
Daok
Sucks that it's sold out in XL at the moment :-(
Michael Stum
Nice one, but "all my base are" would have been enough. therefoer I don't like it.
Nils Pipenbrinck
I has that :D Its lovely
Ólafur Waage
Any good CSS geek would write that as "#F00" and "#00F" :)
Bobby Jack
that is so freakin' awesome.And poetic.
Ronny
Great! The second best for me But It's hilarious :D
unkiwii
Where can I get it?
Dan Hewett
where do they sell this shirt? :)
rick
Always been one of my favourites. Which is hard to admit, since I make a living selling gaming t-shirts, and unfortunately, this isn't one of mine!
Gary
Roses may sometimes be #FF0000, but violets, however, are #550055, I am sorry guys. They are always violet.
Pavel Radzivilovsky
+18  A: 
lajos
My network admin has this one. :)
Bill the Lizard
Adam Savage wore this once on Mythbusters!
TomA
+40  A: 
Adhip Gupta
dead + 1 = 57006
Gamecat
deae, more like it.
Adriano Varoli Piazza
1, if you're one of the group of 0xdead people, otherwise zero - there is an AND in there.
CAD bloke
@CAD: hahaha, good point!
Dan
Very nicely done.
romandas
excelent ! :) ajja.. i have to use my calculator to see how many
unkiwii
+21  A: 
lajos
Not exactly programming related, but I'll pretty much upvote anything Super Mario.
John Rudy
+3  A: 

I'm Not Really a Wizard, I Just Use Python

From PyCon 2007

S.Lott
And I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Michael Myers
+1  A: 

Still my favorite shirt (from now-defunct Codebug.com):

Never write a line of code that anybody else can understand.

Kluge
+8  A: 
Michael Zanussi
+33  A: 
Simon Gillbee
I have to say, I don't get it.. Is there a stereotype about programmers not being able to spell that I'm not aware of?
Blorgbeard
Yes there is. It may be unfair to the small amount of those who can spell, but the stereotype is mostly true. We make good poets as well.;)
WolfmanDragon
Most of the good programmers I've encountered in my career have had excellent spelling. I am completely surprised by this. I mean, look at most of the stuff on stackoverflow (ignoring dumb questions and English novices) as an example. As an aside, one of my grad professors used to dock points for bad spelling in code.
Stuart Branham
All of the programmers I know have excellent spelling skills. Some of them have trouble with spoken English, but they can spell everything. I think it's an attention-to-detail thing.
Martha
Sorry, but the stuff on stackoverflow has mostly crappy spelling and grammar when it first arrives. There are just hordes of obsessive-compulsive correcters making the site readable.
Svante
I made an LJ icon which is is similar, but says "I rite code; I right code; I wright code; I hack"
Brian Postow
That stereotype is so unfair. Why, I can spell tens of words!
Oorang
+46  A: 
docgnome
Regex... Nice! But again, too geeky for the common populace!
Adhip Gupta
That's the point. =)
Erik Forbes
There certainly a lot of Shakespeare references.
Brad Gilbert
That regex is wrong! It says "Two 'b's or Two 'not b's". It should be /(2b|[^2][^b])/.
1800 INFORMATION
"to be or to not b" is equivalent to the original.
sep332
@1800 INFORMATION: Should it not be (b{2}|[^b]{2})?
BenAlabaster
@sep332 - Except for the Star-Trekian grammar error.
Chris Lutz
I think it should be /2b|[^2]b/. 1 800 INFORMATIONS sounds like "to be or not to not be", and that don't make a lick of sense.
tj111
question="/(bb|[^b]{2})/"
Chris S
+101  A: 
Blorgbeard
Upvote... For the ear-rings.
Adhip Gupta
love the ear rings where can i get them?
Scott James
Blorgbeard
+1 for the head tag earrings! Awesome!
Tom Leys
A: 

Back when it looked like Apple might discontinue Objective-C in favor of Java, some wags printed shirts emblazoned with:

[objective-c retain];

Paul Croarkin
http://www.cafepress.com/objc
Quinn Taylor
+39  A: 
Toby Hede
where I can I buy this one? (preferably a European shop)
Ronny
I must have this shirt, link please!
Chris Ballance
Here: http://www.cafepress.com/hypomega.239003943
Toby Hede
got to remember this question... could be really useful.
Arnis L.
+50  A: 
Chris Boran
+16  A: 

Google SREs all got t-shirts that read

I have root @google

Simple & bad-ass.

Moishe
That would go for hundreds if not thousands on ebay. Anyone have a pic?
sep332
@sep332: $100-$1000: root @ google or the t-shirt?
Jared Updike
+9  A: 
mattlant
+165  A: 

alt text

David Grant
ya cant see it, although it should be working. The img tag isnt even rendering in the markup
mattlant
thanks - there we go. had to use their other image construct.
David Grant
i like the "made in the usa". nice touch.
Epaga
oh PLEASE post the link for buying this shirt!
Aaron F.
The link is at the top of the post: http://www.cafepress.com/nucleartacos/317769.
Robert Gamble
My name is Jörgen, it contains the german character 'ö'. I hate the inferior ASCII for not being able to spell my name and all people too incompetent to use Unicode correctly.
Mnementh
Joel Spolsky wrote an article about Unicode and how easy to use it is: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
Mnementh
+16  A: 
dave
You'll have to file it under "feature request"
Jimmy
+50  A: 
bk1e
Agreed. This one is awesome.
Jeff Davis
+27  A: 
shogun
This shirt was designed by my friend Paige. :) Here's a link: http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=6343
Philip Durbin
+26  A: 

Think Globally. Act Within Local Variable Scope.

+11  A: 
Marcel Tjandraatmadja
That's neat. I really like it because it has style (not like all the other geek shirts: white font on black) and has a serious wish in it :D
furtelwart
+11  A: 
Matt Hanson
I always hated this one, because DOS uses backslashes, not forward-slashes.
Brad Gilbert
Good call. That subtle difference really does take the fun out of it.
Matt Hanson
Indeed. I love the idea, but the loss of backslashes robs the maker of a sale...
The Wicked Flea
+24  A: 
Robert Gamble
+1 for SMTP, one of my favourite geek jokes
Andrioid
Taken from the MS Exchange blog's tagline.
tsilb
alternate idea... you had me at <hello world program>, referring some programming language..
rao
+47  A: 
jjacka
I have a clue. therefore I am not a user.
Brad Gilbert
hahahahahhahahaha
acidzombie24
The correct spelling of the table name is 'managers'.
Jonathan Leffler
+14  A: 
CAD bloke
Or the modernized version: letmegooglethatforyou.com
Chris Noe
Someone I used to work with (and coincidentally Chris too) used to have it as his license plate.
CoverosGene
RTFM license plate - I like it. Kudos. Also, there's a somewhat less polite alternative to Chris' modern version www.justfuckinggoogleit.com. I'd wear that t-shirt.
CAD bloke
So do you tell them Read The Friendly Manual, or the other version?
kastermester
it depends .... actually, "friendly" never occurred to me. I do, however, tell some clients that WTF means Waiting To Finalize.
CAD bloke
Of COURSE people ask what it means!
Daniel
+11  A: 

I see dead pixels :)

Kasper Vesth
I saw that in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', wanted it ever since
johnc
Buy a Beamer =)
Time Machine
+5  A: 

I've always wanted a shirt that used MS's phrase from msdn: "This behavior is by design"

Hauge
+44  A: 
Telos
Where can I buy one? Did you photoshop this?
Josh Stodola
You should be able to find it somewhere on Jeff Atwood's blog... not sure where at this point though, sorry!
Telos
+20  A: 
Ichorus
They still are: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/rtfm_maos_little_red_book_tshirt-235940122340353167
Nick
+9  A: 
Vicent Marti
A hammer going at it with a wrench is stylish? :)
Will Mc
You should not be permitted to buy clothes and you should be banned from ever working as a stylist.
foljs
Isn't that shirt at the left the Monad.Reader logo (Haskell) or did someone misappropriate that from the T-shirt?
Jared Updike
@foljs: you want to encourage a programmer to be a nudist?
Jared Updike
Hey, where can I get the right shirt? (a specific link would be nice :) )
Liran Orevi
The left shirt makes me think of a tool-wielding Gordon Freeman...
Kyte
A: 

If you can read it, the message isn't meant for you.

Joeri Sebrechts
translated: you are dumb
Brad Gilbert
ASCII or UniCode?
Time Machine
Koning Baard XIV: write "unicode is not an encoding" 1000 times on the blackboard ;)
Roberto Bonvallet
(In case you meant UTF-8, it's the same as ASCII in the 0-127 range)
Piskvor
+24  A: 
starec
Jay I like that one
Time Machine
+5  A: 
Joe
+9  A: 
Edo
+38  A: 
KPexEA
Is it just me, or is that shirt partially see-through? ;)
gnovice
it might not be just you, lol
Idan K
I see them! Unless its two convieniently places stains.
xenon
I'd buy the shirt just for this picture! lol I don't get out much.
Rick Ratayczak
Nice nipples ;)
Andrei Rinea
Subliminal Message received, buy shirt!
Ioxp
404 doesn't work!!! I have seeonly partial access!
Behrooz
+2  A: 

"If all else fails, manipulate the data"

Vijay Dev
+14  A: 
seanyboy
AHA! That explains so much about C++ !
sep332
After reading 1984 I couldnt help but read c++ as C double-plus. Damn you Orwell
Neil Aitken
lol, this one is cool
xenon
Doubleplusgood 1984 reference
Hooked
FYI, you can buy this from http://www.cafepress.com/ungood
Anirvan
+2  A: 
unkiwii
"succed"? FAIL!
Simon Howard
@Simon Howard: lol... +1 for comment ;)
ceretullis
+2  A: 
Milner
was already there.
codymanix
+9  A: 

I have a tee shirt that I wear when leading tech classes.

It is just "/nev/dull"

mpez0
+7  A: 
Tim Scott
@TimScott: Dupe.
_ande_turner_
@Tim Scott : Dupe from me with about 20x more vote :P
Daok
The human wearing it should be in a CDATA block or he will be parsed. Ouch.
Time Machine
+23  A: 
milot
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/if-date-09-13-2007-engadget-write-happy-programmers-day/comments/7511746/
superUntitled
shouldn't it be "do { success = try(); } while(!success);" for "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" ?
SnOrfus
This is thinkgeek.com's fault -> http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/itdepartment/9a0e/
milot
will not work in Java, try is reserved
medopal
will not work in C++ either...
missingfaktor
`if( ! success() ) { try { try { again(); } } }`
Carson Myers
+5  A: 
Brian C. Lane
+40  A: 
Fredriku73
+20  A: 
Slee
Is this a LISP hacker shirt? or a compiler writer shirt?
Jared Updike
You can do code generation in any language that can write out a text file - and indeed you should.
Daniel Earwicker
Jon Skeet does this all the time. His program writing programs even ask questions on SO.
Time Machine
I'd rather write programs that write goto: programs that write
Liran Orevi
+4  A: 
milot
This just looks like one of those they give out on seminars
melfar
+19  A: 
ceretullis
A: 
ceretullis
+3  A: 
Hamish Smith
+105  A: 

I like this one: free the mallocs

alt text

Brian Rasmussen
Where did you get that one?
Will Mc
Syswear: http://www.syswear.com/view/tshirts?d=26
Brian Rasmussen
Too much WoW… I read that as "Free the Murlocs". >.<
Ben Blank
+1 first one that made me laugh :)
Roman Plášil
A: 

I also have another one that says "If at first you don't succeed, burn the evidence.", one that says "I void warranties" and another that says sudo tail -f /dev/null | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n...and so on and so on.

Stephen Belanger
+19  A: 

They say when you play that Microsoft CD backward you can hear satanic messages ... but that's nothing. If you play it forward it will install Windows.

Adam Pope
-1 =( Was expecting a funny t shirt! not MS hate.
giddy
+14  A: 
superUntitled
lol, oh yes little bobby drop tables we call him
xenon
whoops, s/drop//
xenon
HAHAHA LOL. +1 from me.
the_drow
Except, they called him "little Bobby tables" : http://xkcd.com/327/
SnOrfus
+36  A: 
NotDan
+22  A: 
binOr
+11  A: 
Oorang
+1 for memories long forgotten.
Metro Smurf
ahh the gold old days.
Neil N
A: 

This for all those who are in to Code Generation

"Generator generates the generated code"

Vin
+14  A: 

These two are nice for caffeine junkies:

definition of programmer

Canavar
The second one should read: 'an organism that turns caffeine and sugar into software'. (As in coffee and doughnuts. :-) )
RobH
It's all a reference to Erdos anyway...
Brian Postow
+17  A: 
Hamish Downer
This is the best !
Yassir
Just bought this t-shirt!
xenon
+3  A: 
Robert Munteanu
+6  A: 

I have an ancient shirt that reads:

  • Macintosh for Productivity
  • Linux for Development
  • Palm for Mobility
  • Windows for Solitaire

The reference to Palm dates it (long before iPhone - or maybe it was enormously prescient and predicting the Palm Pre).

Jonathan Leffler
+11  A: 
Sander Marechal
not W3C compliant ;)
Thomas Levesque
Hmm, wombat is nice :)
Roman Plášil
pretty smart, like it.
Pim Jager
This makes the second appropriate use of blink that I've seen.
Roger Pate
+14  A: 
Thomas Levesque
Why does the second line have "$ " in front?
Roger Pate
A: 

One that has the following text written: "It's not a bug. It's a feature!"

bug-a-lot
It's not a feature, it's a bug!
Time Machine
+5  A: 

My friend and I in college had this idea, never put it on a shirt though.

Nobody likes a deadbeat parent process. Please fork() responsibly.

Brett
+2  A: 

Here's a collection of Tcl-wear:

and shirts that go way back, at the digibarn:

and my personal favorite, for obvious reasons:

Mark Harrison
so so classy, how fashionable.
thomasrutter
+30  A: 
Kevin D.
+7  A: 
Kyle Cronin
Only a silver badge for that?
alex
Anyone who would wear this shirt most certainly is not.
Nonapeptide
+20  A: 
Ólafur Waage
+18  A: 
Ólafur Waage
My BASIC compiler gives me a syntax error
Time Machine
+1 I have this one :)
del-boy
A: 
Stewart Robinson
A: 
fakeleft
A: 

Anything from xkcd store or thinkgeek.com

glasnt
+23  A: 
Stan R.
+1  A: 
fandelost
+9  A: 
brianegge
+1  A: 

I get mine printed myself. My favourite ones are

/* programmers */
do {
    it();
} while (1);

and one that has my initials in ASCII binary.

I also have one that simply says "THAT SOFTWARE WOMAN" which was how a client once referred to me when he couldn't remember my name, and I thought it was quite a good way to refer to me really :-)

Vicky
+4  A: 
plinth
I got there in 90, and was very envious of everyone who had these shirts
Brian Postow
+3  A: 
Dusty
A: 
plinth
+10  A: 
plinth
+12  A: 

Knuth is my homeboy

alt text

+10  A: 

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

jhwist
+1  A: 

There's no place like 127.0.0.1:

http://images0.cafepress.com/product/56741660v4%5F480x480%5FFront%5FColor-Black.jpg

Pavel Radzivilovsky
Duplicate. Saw this earlier but with an actual image...
Frank V
+3  A: 

alt text

Not available commercially.

Stringer Bell
The only thing missing from this t-shirt is the sickle and hammer or the soviet star ;)
ceretullis
+7  A: 

There's only one that fits the bill:

Well? What part?

Robert Grant
+9  A: 

My favorite:

alt text

effkay
nice one same here :)
Salil
A: 

A few years ago, NewTek had a shirt at a GDC that said "Piss Off, I'm Coding." On the back of the shirt, of course.

kyoryu
+5  A: 

alt text

Simon Lieschke
+2  A: 

The classic "Hello World" geek t-shirt.

A classic programmer's t-shirt!

Magwich
A: 

Idiot Inside

alt text

Arkapravo
+3  A: 

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x217/Andi_VYB/keyboards/cfbbde8e.jpg

best ever Maternity shirt

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/3064/geekinsidematernityef7.jpg

jasonk
+3  A: 

alt text

Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.

alt text

jasonk
A: 

I'd love to have this one:

Bertolt
A: 

alt text

Gary Willoughby
+1  A: 

Now this is my kind of logic!!!

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Jamie
The real test is how many people come up to you and critique the code: "The == true is redundant, you know."
Richard Morgan
@Richard Morgan +1 For reading my mind:)
Oorang