"Given a choice between spending an hour doing a task manually, or spending three hours writing a program to do it automatically… a geek will write the program, every single time. And, if not given the choice, if explicitly ordered to do the job manually, we’ll disobey and write the program anyway. I’ve heard it said that a good geek is lazy, but I think it’s more precise to say that a geek dreads boredom above all else. We’ll move mountains to accomplish a task, as long as it’s interesting."