“‘Abort, Retry, Fail?’ was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we’d remind them: if you see this message, always choose ‘Retry.’”

— Bad’l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft

From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999) when you discover Matter Editation

That game was awesome. I remember seeing it in DOS games when I was younger and laughing at the joke.