Denial: The First Stage Of Debugging

The universal programmer's defense mechanism in its natural habitat. First comes the suggestion that code might be the problem, followed immediately by the instinctive denial that echoes through cubicles worldwide. The irony? It's always a software issue... right after you've spent hours swearing it couldn't possibly be. That moment of realization usually hits around commit #47 when you discover that semicolon you deleted "because it looked funny."