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by zwp 1671 days ago
Larry Wall, inventor of Perl:

"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.", "Programming Perl", 1ed

2ed says:

"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. Also hence, this book."

Some discussion at https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris