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Being Urgently Lazy


There is also what we might call the urgency of laziness. This is an apparent paradox, for laziness and urgency would seem to be exact opposites. In practice, however, laziness can be a powerful spur to thought. This point is neatly made by Dr Nathan Kline: "I always try to do things the simplest way. And I think laziness is a virtue. If you have to get your work done and you're lazy, you'll find a better way to do it and one that requires less effort and time, so laziness is a virtue when you combine it with enough compulsiveness to be sure you get there."

Finally someone who has confirmed my thoughts about myself. Programmers are really lazy people. They want to do the work done with the least amount of effort. To take a simple example, some people may write 10 lines to go through an array but a clever and lazy programmer will write a loop to do the same thing with less effort.

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