What are your favourite funny lines from programming tools

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Just for fun, what are your favourite funny lines from programming tools?

For instance, from subversion:

--This line, and those below, will be ignored--

Not terribly fun on its right context, but added to the fortune database:

Subversion message displayed as a fortune cookie

EDIT: I have marked the question as Communuity Wiki and reopened.

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