The Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs do not work:
- That’s weird…
- It’s never done that before.
- It worked yesterday.
- How is that possible?
- It must be a hardware problem.
- What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?
- There is something funky in your data.
- I haven’t touched that module in weeks!
- You must have the wrong version.
- It’s just some unlucky coincidence.
- I can’t test everything!
- THIS can’t be the source of THAT.
- It works, but it hasn’t been tested.
- Somebody must have changed my code.
- Did you check for a virus on your system?
- Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
- You can’t use that version on your system.
- Why do you want to do it that way?
- Where were you when the program blew up?
- It works on my machine.”