The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - Charles Stross

This is the Forecasting Operations Department, where one is supposed to imagine that crystal-ball gazing precognitives may or may not tickle the tummy of Schrödinger’s cat while juggling ampoules full of hydrogen cyanide and giggling madly at the whirling fog bank of the uncertain future.

Anxiety loves company almost as much as misery.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence or overwork?" Alex asks, rising.
"Something like that. But there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice."