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Programmers and computer scientists tend, in my experience, go for what is sometimes called Ha-Ha-Only-Serious (“HHOS”) type jokes. Meaning, statements that are true, but so piercing that they also are humorous.

In this vein, I can recommend the book The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James. There are also collections of funny anecdotes like “COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”¹, “Computer Stupidities”² and the pre-MacOS X Macintosh-related collection of “folklore”³. There is also the classic “AI koans” collection⁴.

If what you want is something more like a personal biography (like the classic Feynman books), I can suggest The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist⁵.

1. https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...

2. http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

3. https://www.folklore.org/

4. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html

5. https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC



I would add "The Codeless Code"[1] to this list; very entertaining stories/koans told as if programmers were monks in a monastery.

[1] http://thecodelesscode.com


More like this:

Rootless Root — The Unix Koans of Master Foo:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/

The Tao Of Backup:

http://www.taobackup.com/

Git Koans

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/




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