> both avocations are attractive to unbalanced personalities

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I thought to make a comment about an excess of meticulousness, but then I remembered Larry Wall and thought about Perl, so I suppose that doesn't really fly.

This reminds me of Cringley's theory that there are two main types of programmer, hippies and nerds. Hippies do big picture stuff and are good at UI/UX etc. but their low level code is sometimes untidy, nerds are great at fine detail and micro-optimization but can lose sight of the overall goal.

He's the analogue of the guy who just blew away whole families point-blank.

You can still set the record for being both though. To balance it out...