THE ZEN OF COMPUTERS
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error
messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction
rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the
first line, seven in the second, five in the third.
Haiku is used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful,
yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity — the essence of Zen.
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
— Peter Rothman
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
— David J. Liszewski
The Website you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
— Joy Rothke
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
— Suzie Wagner
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.
— Mike Hagler
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
— Margaret Segall
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
— Simon Firth
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
— Bill Torcaso
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
— James Lopez
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
— David Dixon
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
— Cass Whittington
I am the master.
You have nowhere to run to.
Microsoft can’t die.
—
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Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”