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by irthomasthomas 1251 days ago
Perhaps he's a Buddhist? "If the software is going to break, then the software will be broken." Then he adds a little wabi-sabi for good measure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

I remember once, using some in-house software, which for god knows why could not log it's errors back to the IT department. Instead, they relied on users to call up IT, or email them with the error. To make it more fun for users, each error message contained a humorous haiku.

  Chaos reigns within.
  Reflect, repent, and reboot.
  Order shall return.
Edit: Just found this from 2001 https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.en.html And my experience with haiku error messages at work was 01 or 02.