Reminds me of a quote by Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, a German general:

I divide my officers into four classes as follows:

The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.

Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy.

The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions.

But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.

lenkite

How can you be industrious and lazy ?

dijksterhuis

The old urban legend of the sysadmin who wrote scripts to send an SMS to his wife depending on whether he still had active ssh connections at 6pm comes to mind.

Others might call this being efficient or work smart, not hard etc. etc.

To me, it's quintessential laziness at its most glorious.

Edit: knew there was a link somewhere https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts