"Indeed, there lies the integrity of technical craft: with gadgets, results are not negotiable. The clear, cool beauty of this kind of work is that in the last analysis, it doesn't matter where you went to school, or what letters come after your name, or whom you know, or how you negotiate; what does matter is that you either get the gadget to work, or you don't. Bottom line, end of story." --
-Fiddling with Gadgets, by Terence Dyke and Paul Smolen
