Haiku Error Messages
Three things are certain: Everything is gone;
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
-- David Dixon		 Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
-- David Carlson
I'm sorry, there's -- um -- Windows NT crashed.
insufficient -- what's-it-called?
The term eludes me ...
-- Owen Mathews		 I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
-- Peter Rothma
Seeing my great fault The code was willing,
 Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
-- Chris Walsh		 It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
-- Barry L. Brumitt
Printer not ready. A file that big?
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
-- Pat Davis		  It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
-- David J. Liszewski
Errors have occurred. Server's poor response
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
-- Charlie Gibbs		 Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
-- Rik Jespersen
Chaos reigns within. Login incorrect.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
-- Suzie Wagner		 Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
-- Jason Axley
This site has been moved. Wind catches lily
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.
-- Charles Matthews		 scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault
-- Nick Sweeney
First snow, then silence. ABORTED effort:
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
-- Simon Firth		 Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.
-- Mike Hagler
The Tao that is seen With searching comes loss
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
-- Bill Torcaso		 and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
-- Howard Korder
Stay the patient course The Web site you seek
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
-- David Ansel		 cannot be located but
endless others exist
-- Joy Rothke
There is a chasm A crash reduces
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge
-- Rahul Sonnad		 your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
-- James Lopez
To have no errors Yesterday it worked
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
-- Brian M. Porter		 Today it is not working
Windows is like that
-- Margaret Segall
No keyboard present You step in the stream,
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?
-- Jim Griffith		 but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
-- Cass Whittington
Out of memory. Hal, open the file
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
-- Francis Heaney		 Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the, please Hal
-- Jennifer Jo Lane
The ten thousand things Having been erased,
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.
-- Jason Willoughby		 The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
-- Judy Birmingham
Rather than a beep Serious error.
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."
-- Len Dvorkin		  All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
-- Ian Hughes