Actually, I should say, “Too much laziness, yet not quite enough, will get you.”
Don’t you love that moment, after you clean out your history and your cookies and all, when you discover all the things you no longer remember the password for?
Extreme laziness would spare me this. If every password were the same, it wouldn’t be a problem. But…I like to think I’m brighter than to make my Bissell Company (yeah, had to register for their forums to order a part, how much sense does that make?) password the same as, say, my bank site’s.
But I don’t have a great memory. So, yes, I write these things down. (sometimes I don’t, which creates a whole new side to the problem.) But I’m paranoid enough to write them in a sort of shorthand that should only mean something to me.
Sometimes, when it’s been long enough since I needed the note–I forget what it means too.
blarghle.