Brevity is the soul of wit, as Ernest Hemingway once demonstrated when he wrote his six-word short story: "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn."
Now, the explosion of the #FiveWordTechHorrors hashtag on Twitter has shown you can sum up all the ghastliness and heartache of IT in phrases of one word less than Hemingway's example. Here's a collection of the most pithy, pointed, and perceptive favorites:
We can add security later.
— Jeremy Martin (@jmar777)Clear the cache and refresh.
— Ben Callahan (@bencallahan)You backed it up, right? pic.twitter.com/KGmhjPpmGu
— Julie Anderson (@juliejulie)Best viewed with Internet Explorer.
— Nick Pettit (@nickrp)I’ll just reply to all
— cody_bunch (@cody_bunch)client paid me in bitcoin
— CUSS BROTHER (@CUSSBRO)“All our developers are designers.”
— Jen Simmons (@jensimmons)This website requires Flash Player.
— Stephen Robinson (@xstex)We've been bought by Yahoo
— James Wallis (@JamesWallis)The acquisition won't change anything
— Brian Gracely (@bgracely)Billion of devices running Java
— Mohit Kumar (@unix_root)just install your own cloud.
— Werner Vogels (@Werner)Google changed their search algorithm
— jason (@Jason)Robert Scoble thinks it's cool.
— Dave Winer ☮ (@davewiner)Off by one error.
— Snook (@snookca)Open souce doesn't cost anything
— Jonathan Frappier (@jfrappier)And last, but definitely not least:
According to Gartner we should...
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