Listen to me.  I did not wish to be summoned by your Princess.
Summoned, I did not wish to come.  But having been summoned, and
having come, I mean to give a good account of myself.  That's how
I was taught by my father, and by the men of his age who slew
Kings and swept away not merely Governments but whole Systems of
Thought, like Khans of the Mind.  I would have my son in Boston
know of my doings, and be proud of them, and carry my ways forward
to another generation on another continent.  Any opponent who does
not know this about me, stands at a grave disadvantage; a
disadvantage I am not above profiting from.

		-- Daniel Waterhouse, in
		   Neal Stephenson's "The System Of The World"