virtue

Shakespeare said it best through Hamlet: Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Being straight didn't make his birth parents paragons of virtue.

A lot of the OO support in React is there as a concession, more than being considered a virtue.

This is nothing new, I don't know why people seem to expect VC to be of better virtue than others means of founding a company.

So the web, by virtue of being intangible, is almost quintessentially resourceless.

Another way is to say that gravitational essentially is space, so it affects you simply by virtue of existing.

To talk about traits like intelligence and patience in terms of what they are: winnings in the genetic lottery, rather than as the result of moral virtue.

I suspect that, in the general case, keeping away people/projects for whom $20/month is prohibitively expensive ends up being a virtue for caker and the Linode crew.

There's a chapter in Accellerando ^1 where Manfred's glasses are stolen, and the thug who steals them becomes Manfred by simple virtue of putting them on and being overwhelmed by the signals.

I love how you're this paragon of stoic virtue, and I'm a drama queen, yet, here you are talking about it even more instead of ignoring it and going back to whatever it was you were doing.

I personally think a lot of criticisms leveled against Java's verbosity and inflexibility are unfair, by virtue of the following: Many incredibly successful and complex open source projects are written in Java.