I have invented countless things that would prove of great value to many people. And that presents me with a dilemma. I must ask myself, with each invention, what possible abuses await such an object? More often than not, I conclude those abuses outweigh the value of the invention. I call this Dev's First Law of invention.

— The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6)