The trick is not to come up with something that works well now; the trick is to come up with something that would be running six years from now given zero attention or support.
Madness string 1723
I took a pre-emptive, illegal action against someone I'd never met, in case they tried to steal from me, and then it turned out they did try to steal from me, and I was like, 'Gotcha! I anticipated this event and already laid my trap!' and they were all, 'what is wrong with you, how does that even work?'