I found this on Slashdot. As a programmer, it seemed approprate.

Programming is not art. It is the modern day equivalent of sorcery. And on
the darker side of sorcery too.

We cast spells (programs) to make inanimate objects (computers) do things.
And the images and icons associated with computing are sorcery related.
Daemons (note archaic spelling), zombies, ghost jobs, magic numbers, wave
a dead chicken, etc. My video card is labeled "trident". Hmmm.

And magic is about as reliable now as it was back then too. Usually it
does what you expect, but sometimes it blows up for no reason; the daemon
runs amok leaving a trail of destruction and data loss in its path. The
accident can't be reproduced. And the program/spell can never be provably
guranteed to do what it's supposed to do, so the users have to just take
it on faith. It could happen again. Who knows?

And sloppy sorcerers eventually end up facing angry mobs with torches and
pitchforks. Today these people are the ones calling you on the technical
support phone. Hell is still hell. Nothing new here.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.