Nothing quite like the rush of typing mkdir -p /some/complex/path while someone watches over your shoulder. They think you're hacking the Pentagon, but you're just creating a directory. The terminal is our lightsaber – elegant, powerful, and completely mystifying to the uninitiated. Sure, money buys yachts and status gets you into fancy parties, but making a non-programmer's jaw drop by using basic bash commands? Priceless. And we don't even have the heart to tell them it's the digital equivalent of using a hammer.