Gentler Error Messages

A large Japanese computer firm plans to create its own computer with an operating system to compete with Windows. One of the features will be a unique collection of error messages that will clearly be more user friendly than the cryptic messages generated by the Windows operation systems. Specifically, Microsoft error messages will be replaced by Japanese haiku poetry.

Here are a few examples


A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.


The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist.


Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.


Aborted effort.
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.


First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.


With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.


The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.


Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.


Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down


A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.


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.


You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.


Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.


Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.


Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."


Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are empty.


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