Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, explains why the Hobbits embody what Wall sees as the three virtues of good programmers: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

OPS: For the sake of this discussion... What do you mean when you say "private cloud, public cloud and data center"? CLOUDIFY: A data center is a bunch of machines that are running most of the time. It could be a bare-bones data center or a virtualized data-center. A private cloud is a data center that has an API for provisioning machines on-demand. It takes away the need to manually decide which VM runs on which physical machine for which user. A public cloud is like a private cloud, but each machine is billed by the hour.

OPS: For the sake of this discussion... What do you mean when you say "private cloud, public cloud and data center"? CLOUDIFY: A data center is a bunch of machines that are running most of the time. It could be a bare-bones data center or a virtualized data-center. A private cloud is a data center that has an API for provisioning machines on-demand. It takes away the need to manually decide which VM runs on which physical machine for which user. A public cloud is like a private cloud, but each machine is billed by the hour.