Mine isn't too bad, but I was hired on to clean up some existing data processing code and make it run more efficiently. The existing code took something like 6 hours to run, was like 1000 lines long, and had all of these needless, complicated arrays with convoluted transposing to get them lined up. I came in, took out all of the arrays, used some simple do loops and got the code down to 200 lines and running in 30 minutes. My code was rejected because their lead programmer at the time refused to believe that it could run that fast since "arrays are more efficient than do loops".

If you read these accounts, a lot of the atrocities seem to be rooted in personal conflicts, missing empathy, decisions from single persons and so on … very human indeed.

Just remember, computers don't make mistakes, they do what they do on purpose.

I only program in power point....
On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint

As a person with only a rudimentary knowledge of coding, the largest amount of bad code that I've ever seen work was probably Windows 95.

Some of this isn't too far from the idea that sports cars get worse with every model as time passes.

Too many cocks spoil the brothel.