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Diligence, Patience, and Humility https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-sources/1565925823/ch11.html https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-sources/1565

• lioeters 6y ago
  Great find - Larry Wall writes: > Three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience, and hubris. Great Perl programmers embrace those virtues. So do Open Source developers. > But here I’m going to talk about some other virtues: diligence, patience, and humility. > If you think these sound like the opposite, you’re right. If you think a single community can’t embrace opposing values, then you should spend more time with Perl. After all, there’s more than one way to do it.
• riffraff 6y ago
  I have read this a dozen times over the years, and I still find it great. To me it's one of the best bits of writing I've read, regardless of the argument. As a random example: > Here is the shape of the big bang, and of stars, and of soap bubbles it's just a perfect sentence.