Queue howls of laughter:
The new certification that I’m going to try and incorporate as part of our QA program at work (ok, not really… well maybe…).
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, with a straight face, “Gee, I dunno — it works on my machine.” In fact, 10 or 15 years ago I’d even mean it. Now I just say it to get the Project Managers or QA folks all wound up.
Tweaking can be relaxing. For me, at any rate. 
Wonder if the licensing on the image is such that I could get some t-shirts printed? [Updated: t-shirts available now]
[via Coding Horror: The "Works on My Machine Certification Program"]
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March 16th, 2007 
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[...] Works On My Machine (2007-03-23) This blog post reminded me of a funny story from MIT. My friend Peter S. and I were lab partners in a notoriously challenging electrical engineering lab class. In this class, we built a functioning computer step by step. Mis-wire one chip and your kit would not work. We sat opposite each other in the lab, cutting, splicing, and wiring from a specific pin on one chip to a specific pin on another chip. We spoke out loud, checking and double-checking our work. At the end of each phase, we powered on the kits and ran a series of tests to make sure that we had wired everything correctly. One wiring mistake could mean hours of re-wiring. When we finally powered on our kits to check our progress, my lights instantly turned on, his did not. "Drat!," he said (to paraphrase). We checked and double-checked. Everything looked fine on both kits. That's when I said, not too helpfully, "If it's any consolation, mine works!" Long story short. Because we were sitting facing each other, it wasn't immediately obvious that I'd wired one set of lights and he'd wired another set. His was correct, mine was wrong. The lights weren't supposed to go on! It's become a running joke ever since. (Peter and I would later go on to work in QA at both BBN and Cayman.) [...]