Budgen, D. (2003). Software design. Harlow, Eng.: Addison-Wesley. p. 225. ISBN0-201-72219-4 "As described in Long (2001), design anti-patterns are 'obvious, but wrong, solutions to recurring problems'."
Koenig, Andrew (março–abril de 1995). «Patterns and Antipatterns». Journal of Object-Oriented Programming. 8 (1): 46–48; was later re-printed in the: Rising, Linda (1998). The patterns handbook: techniques, strategies, and applications. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 387. ISBN0-521-64818-1 "Anti-pattern is just like pattern, except that instead of solution it gives something thats looks superficially like a solution, but isn't one."