Top 20 Replies by Programmers
 When Their Programs Don't Work


1. “I thought I fixed that.”
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"

7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
                                        8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
9.
"THIS can't be the source of THAT."
10. "I can't test everything!"     
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."  "You must have the wrong version."
12. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
13. "There is something funky in your data."

    • "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?" "It must be a hardware problem."

16. "How is that possible?" "It worked yesterday."
17. "It's never done that before." "That's weird..."