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That's where the "back of an envelope" specification (or a note of a phone call in your day book) comes in really handy! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If there is no specification then you cannot break the specs and "anything goes".
I'd suggest to add Doom as a resource 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Back in the late 1960s - yes, I'm an old-timer - while working as the chief sysprog at a university I made major changes to the FORTRAN compiler used in IBM's 704x mainframe computers, adding features that were in later implementations of the language. Many of the features required that I keep tables within the compiler, and at various points I ran sanity checks to ensure that the tables were mutually consistent.
When the sanity checks failed I failed the compile and issued the error message:
ERROR 1164 - HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU GET HERE
Only once in the several years that the enhanced compiler was in use did someone get the message, and it revealed a flaw in my code. (IIRC the bug was how I handled one-line DO loops.)
On the subject of Easter Eggs, at one time long, long ago I maintained a list of Easter Egg sightings on the old WUARCHIVE server. Sadly, it's no longer in existence, having disappeared about five years ago (although much earlier I stopped maintaining the list of eggs because people stopped reporting them).
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This is a Leslie, but anyway ...
Google Image search for 'Atari Breakout' and ... see what happens. Turn down your speaker volume before that. (Only on Chrome, I guess).
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I created an Access(I shudder to think of the horrors I created with Access) application about 9 years ago that produced a catalogue for salesmen. The catalogue contained images prices and descriptions of products so that salesmen could generate adhoc catalogues for customers.
On the 100th creation of a catalogue, an image of Cliff Richard would pop up with the words "Congratulations!" under it.
The salesmen really liked it and like a small child asked to see it again which of course I refused to allow so every so often there would be great joy when a 100th catalogue was created.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Ever tried the Konami code on Code Project ?
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Is it supposed to do more than expand all the messages and put a life bar of Bobs at the bottom?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I think you missed the unicorn on the rainbow.
Ok, just kidding, there was only something with infinite or very high rep points, IIRC.
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Ah, yeah, I have forgotten how to do that. I thought it was member 0.
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My school project was a calculator that could also interprete variables and derive functions.
My teammate and I programm included a 3D rotating cube that was displayed full screen when calculating the power of 3 of any expression.
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Surely, it can't really be considered an Easter egg if the user doesn't have to do anything more than use the application for what it was intended to find it??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 25-Aug-15 6:30am.
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How much time does a school project get used ? We did want it to be found out 
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This window title is long lasting. I remember using it on Windows 95. When I was young and wild. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Allowed? No idea... Never asked... Just did it.
As long as it doesn't take too long to write (I spent about 5 minutes) and doesn't make the app insecure or unstable, why not?
There's one in the system I wrote for our trading desk... It's a reference to "Sabra Price is Right" from SNL...
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Jacquers wrote: Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs?
Probably but we have real work to do and can't afford to waste time on childish nonsense. We're paid to produce a line of business applications, not kiddie games.
Jacquers wrote: We write business apps, so it's frowned upon.
Exactly. Never really saw why anyone would bother to waste time inserting "easter eggs".
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In my industry, the regulators will likely find it, flag it and then whoever put it there would be out of a job.
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Our development manager asked me to add a team photo of the ~300 people on the project as an Easter egg.
So if you end up using a specific search term in our global search box the team photo pops up 
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Link and instructions in today's CP insider email: "Press Alt+F4 to see something special!"
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Here's one that I put in many moons ago. I had a form that required a finger pointer mouse cursor. I set up a counter so that every 17th time rolling over a particular label, the index finger would briefly change to the middle finger.
The main tester in our group found it on the first day.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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I cycled thru questions from Monty Python at the end of an install wizward, with the answers provided during uninstall. Test group had fun.
The cruising airspeed of an unladen european swallow is roughly 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour) using Strouhal's equation. Reference http://style.org/unladenswallow[^]
Toto1107
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I did a sort of inadvertent Easter Egg once.
The team I was on was doing a new version of a tax law database search workstation. The mainframe did the searching (this being the early 90's) and the workstation (PC) would maintain document coherency since this was the days of 2400 baud modems and we could not pull down the entire document at one time.
When the user wanted to print the document, the workstation would determine what pieces were missing and download them. The original documents were typeset with features like multi-line curly braces. The current version of the workstation did not attempt to replicate these features.
There were translation tables to convert print features between printers. This being the days predating common printer drivers. You needed a certain ESC sequence to print bold on an Epson impact printer versus the ESC sequences you needed to print bold on an HP LaserJet. The rich format documents downloaded were dumbed down when printed. HP had just released the LaserJet III and I discovered I could build a translation table to print the documents as they looked in book form. I had been experimenting with it when they came by saying they needed my current version for the production copy. Since that was the only version I had ready to go, I gave it to them. The software created an INI file where it stored your printer selection. From the software you could only select 1 for Epson and 2 for the generic HP LaserJet. If you hand edited the INI file to point to 3, you’d get the enhanced HP LaserJet III rendering.
Which would give you a printout looking exactly like the original documents.
During the development of the new, improved translation table, I learned that the management of the company I was working for, did not appreciate any independent thought on software development or design. It was one of those, "If I want your opinion, I'll tell you what it is" sort of places.
So I never mentioned the enhanced capability, except to a few coworkers.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Cannot believe that this momentous news appears not to have been covered on here, but they are splitting up, for a bit, starting next year, perhaps.
Joey Fatone (no, I don't know either) has written them a message.
I found it humorous[^]
Edit: I wonder if the site will start to get more hits now I've posted a message with that subject. Keep it kid sister safe, there's gonna be a lot of them turning up here for a while and either getting very confused or very angry if the replies go the way I expect. And not many creatures get angrier than 1D fans when they think their beloved band is under attack.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I saw it on the BBC news yesterday, but figured that without Simon Cowell pushing them in everyone's faces they will be forgotten and back to flipping burgers by Christmas...
It's not as if they could sing, play instruments well, or write good songs after all...just another cardboard cut-out "band" for morons to moon over.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They are also the most successful British pop act since The Beatles - makes me cry.
Anyway, I have a teenaged daughter and I am going to milk this darn cow till it looks like an anorexic horse in a famine.
veni bibi saltavi
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Another triumph of marketing over reality. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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