1. A computer-program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer-program product comprising instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform operations to manage statements relating to a computer system state, the operations comprising: obtaining, in a computer system and from any of several sources, statements that relate to a current state of the computer system, each statement comprising several elements; assigning focus values to the elements of each statement, each focus value indicating a relevance of the element to the current state of the computer system; identifying a subset of the statements based on the focus values; and making a first output to a user, the first output being selected from several predefined outputs using the subset of the statements.