People tend to underestimate him on first acquaintance. It’s a mistake they only make once. Whether or not they survive. - Charles Stross

It’s all he can do to refrain from prayer. God probably doesn’t want to know what he’s doing here this morning, a borderline accomplice to evil in service to a greater cause.

The HomeSec's focus group will take one look at this and tell you to sex it up."...
"Why do you think that'll be a priority?" she asks.
"You know perfectly well why—...For the same reason they want a balanced team rather than a competent one. It doesn't fit the cultural agenda they're trying to impose."

I’m thinking on the fly, here. (Although now that I’m in middle management I think I’m supposed to call it “refactoring the strategic value proposition in real time with agile implementation,” or, if I’m being honest, “making it up as I go along.”)