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 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.

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  • http://calinazaret.net Julie

    These are very funny! Everything that lives must eventually die. Humans are creative enough to make it funny!

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  • http://www.lancevance.org Lance

    Well, one comes to my mind. Maybe TTL shouldn’t mean Time to live but Time to leave. So it could be “It was TTL.”

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  • http://mynameistux.blogspot.com/ mynameistux

    this deserves a roflcopter

  • Devil Miner

    I thought I’d see Boltzmann’s epitaph here with the definition of entropy:
    “S = k ln W”…

  • http://mondolibero.wordpress.com/ Mondo Libero

    Thanks for this worderful post.

  • http://www.girlatastartup.wordpress.com girlatastartup

    Rami,

    I get so excited when I can actually comment on your blog b/c that means that I understand the post! Word. Let’s see, mine would say,

    “She came. She saw. She karaoked.” HOLLA

  • http://solapurnews.blogspot.com paresh

    funny article.

  • amrush

    HEHE .. very funny .. what are you going to put on your epitaph, Rami? :P

  • http://www.eliskipp.com eli skipp

    I can definitely think of a few to add –

    “Have you checked to make sure she’s plugged in?”
    “Can someone cast a Rez?”
    “Buried.” (or even “Dugg!”)
    “We’ve boxed this model.”

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  • Ramses

    +++ NO CARRIER +++

  • PN

    A simple ‘User has logged off.’ would be funniest to me.

  • Netdancer

    I’ve always planned to have just my e-mail on my tombstone. That’s how everyone I care about knows me anyhow. :>

  • John Willemse

    “Kernel panic – not syncing” would be a nice one.

  • Sircell

    Simple.

    [/LIFE]

  • http://www.byknight.com/wordpress Peter Knight

    “Tending towards maximum entropy”

  • Dizzley

    What about: Just Parsed Away

  • Dizzley

    I prefer &ltBODY&gt

  • Dizzley

    Damn! I meant

  • Dizzley

    Doh. EPIC FAIL!

    $lt;/BODY>

    I give up. :)

  • Dizzley

    Grrrr. Fingers like sausages and brain like marshmallow…

    </BODY>

    At last!