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? and the number One reply is:
  • “It works on my machine.”

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