[Larry Wall], the father of Perl, lists the three great virtues of all programmers: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. After seeing that Saleae jacked up the prices on their popular logic analyzers ...

Virtue ethics is person rather than action based. It looks at the moral character of the person carrying out an action. A right act is the action a virtuous person would do in the same ...

There we found the tail end of the first great flowering of virtue names. Charity, Mercy, Patience and Prudence all went great guns around the time of the Revolutionary War but faded afterward.

Great necessities call out great virtues,” wrote Abigail Adams in a letter to John Quincy Adams. Slice his entire life, and you find nothing but a flawless character that Mohammad Ali Jinnah had ...