Best programmer replies when something is wrong

  1. That’s weird…
  2. It’s never done that before.
  3. It worked yesterday.
  4. How is that possible?
  5. It must be a hardware problem.
  6. What did you type in wrong to get it crash?
  7. There is something funky in your data
  8. I haven’t touched that part in weeks!
  9. You must have the wrong version
  10. It’s just some unlucky coincidence
  11. I can’t test everything!
  12. THIS can’t be the source of THAT
  13. It works, but is hasn’t been tested
  14. Someone must have changed my code
  15. Did you check for a virus on your system?
  16. Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
  17. You can’t use that version on your system
  18. Why do you want to do it that way?
  19. Where were you when the program blew up?

And the Number One reply by programmer when their programs don’t work:

  1. It works on my machine