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[resonant]

"Like all net and lattice designers [...] Nathan is superstitious about his creations. He wonders sometimes, if by some chance there is a heaven, whether all its gates will be barred to him ... For his hubris."

-- Greg Bear, Slant

I put this up because I wondered if it was true. Programmers? Ring true to you?

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[linbot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it kind of sounds right to me. On a couple of occasions, I've felt a very intense gloating kind of satisfaction with a program I've written. They're such a purely intellectual exercise.

And while it's easy to make a program *work*, it's entirely different to make it work elegantly, efficiently.

It's a great feeling.

Linda.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

The three canonical cardinal virtues of programmers are: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Funny, I would have thought "excessive caffeine consumption" would have made the list.