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Virtues of a sysadmin, by AEleen Frisch, from her book Essential system administration, p.681, adapted a little.

• Flexibility: being able to wriggle out of tight spots and escape when irate users think they have you cornered.
• Ingenuity: realizing that your printer also speaks FTP.
• Patience: remaining capable of waiting until Mozilla 1.0 is released.
• Persistence: the compulsion to try justt-one-more-thing to fix a problem before going home.
• Adherence to routine: insisting on real coffee, smoking in your office and Jolt, coming late and having your company-payed breakfast behind your computer, using qwerty mapping for any keyboard.
• Attention to detail: installing apt-get on all your servers so you can tell those wussies apt-get <package> doesn't work.
• Laziness: writing a 250-line script to avoid typing 5 characters.