Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives Quotes

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--

There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.