The article is talking about lazy evaluation, not lazy programmers. And thus it's not talking about impatience or hubris either, because it's not talking about

The article is talking about lazy evaluation, not lazy programmers. And thus it's not talking about impatience or hubris either, because it's not talking about that quote at all, just using it because it contains the word 'lazy' in a programming context. Lazy evaluation is probably better named "deferred evaluation", and is more analogous to procrastination, not laziness.