Haiku error messages we'd like to see...

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
 

Zen and the art of error messages

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
your file is not found.
Perhaps Robbie Burns might have phrased it thus:
Ah, what tangles webs perceive
When ere we practice to retrieve ...
 Extracted from http://ezzell.org/Error_Contest/Error_Contest.html by Ben Ezzell

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