"To blog often and much; To win the respect of lurkers and the affection of trolls; To earn the appreciation of metafilter and endure the betrayal of b3ta; To appreciate pron, to find the breast in others; To leave the worldwideweb a bit webbier, whether by a healthy collection of illegally downloaded Family Guy episodes, a cracked Photoshop patch, or a recurring social disease; To know even one flamewar has flamed easier because you have likened someone's behaviour to Hitler. This is to have pwnd."

Steve Cake's speech to the troops at Tilbury, on the eve of the Spanish Armada, 1588.