20 Great Geek Epitaphs

Published on June 25, 2008 in General by Rami Taibah

Recently Martin shared with me a Reddit comment thread titled What would the best geek epitaph be?. This immediately caught my attention, as the question posed is fertile for outrageous humor, witty comments, and downright geeky cheekiness. Here are some beaming examples:

• “Goodbye World” ; coders start out their programming careers with the “Hello world” program, it’s only appropriate for them to end it with this one!
• “Respawn in 10… 9… 8…”; for the geek gamers out there
• “shutdown -h now”; self explainable, but the -h flag is for halt.
• A user brilliantly replied to the above epitaph with “shutdown -r now if he is a Buddhist”; the -r flag means reboot. Reincarnation.
• “Hashes to hashes, struct to struct.”
• “404 Life not found”
• “rm -rf /dev/body mv /dev/soul ../“; rm is the Unix command for “remove”, mv is for “move”, -f for “force”, -r for “recursive”
• A screen shot of a “BSOD”
• $> /dev/null

I also took the liberty of googling some more, here are some other great examples:

• “Born: 1337 Died:1337″
• “Pwned”; obvious but classic!
• “OMG H4x”
• “Damn Lag”
• “LAST POST!”
• “Exceeded TTL”; TTL= Time To Live
• “EPIC FAIL”
• “Fatal Error”

  (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore?

• “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Now thats just class!

Pictures are worth a 1000 words:

What would YOU have on your epitaph?

About Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah the founder of The Linuxologist and a self proclaimed geek and Linux aficionado. This fall, he will be pursuing an MIMS degree at UC Berkeley, California. You can follow him on Twitter @rtaibah.