A lot of people gave very selflessly to build this warship so we can go out and battle the vikings, but the time has come to admit that hard work and hope are no substitute for actual knowledge and that we’ve made a really shitty ship. If we sail this ship against the vikings, we’ll be massacred immediately.
Oglaf webcomic, “Bilge”
(Oglaf is usually NSFW, so I’m not linking, even if this particular comic has nothing worse than coarse language.)
-- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson