Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.

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

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

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