I could see the project leads finding the following quote relevant to their software's messaging-focused design, in the wry Unix tradition that calls services daemons and so on:
"They were given the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. In the manner of children, they all wanted to be couriers. As a result, there are only couriers. They gallop through the world shouting to each other messages that, since there are no kings, have become meaningless. Gladly would they put an end to their miserable existence, but they dare not, because of their oaths of service."
