The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3)

by Charles Stross

On the other hand, unreliability never stopped anyone from using a given technology—just look at Microsoft if you don’t believe me.

To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.