57 Movie Quotes about Programming (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 14, 2026

Memorable quotes about programming, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 All programs have a desire to be useful.

Mcp Master Control Program in TRON (1982)

2 Hmm. Bug hunting. Of all the silly ideas.

Ken Sansom as Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Anthony Daniels as C 3po in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

4 The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered insensate things.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

5 Who is your programmer? -Me!

Tim Blaney as Number 5 The Robot in Short Circuit (1986)

6 I can't afford to have an independent programmer monitoring me.

Mcp Master Control Program in TRON (1982)

7 The system's got more bugs than a bait store.

Quote from TRON (1982)

8 The best programmer ENCOM ever saw, and he winds up playing space cowboy in some back room.

Quote from TRON (1982)

9 And our spirit remains in every program we designed for this computer.

Quote from TRON (1982)

10 It's my fault. I programmed you to want too much.

David Warner as Ed Dillinger in TRON (1982)