"Sad?" He thought about it. "I dunno. Confused , I guess. It was so different when it was Me versus Them, one little guy, y’know, goin’ up against the biggest fat cats I could find.... I hated ’em ... sort of ... but even if they were big, and bad, and unbeatable, at least that meant I understood something. They were the fat cats, and I was Robin Hood. But now I’m not even a player. There are phone phreaks, these software guys, they live in the telephones, just sit up all night eating Twinkies and typing code ... kids, some of ’em."