An ardent practitioner of the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, hubris and impatience as described Laziness The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don`t have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Impatience The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don`t just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. Hubris Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won`t want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. ©