What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with

What order would you put these traits in? Anything else to look for?

(Of course, also realizing that your potential employee or partner should be evaluating you in the same way.)

A) Compatible personality - someone with whom you enjoy working

B) Deep knowledge in whatever platform you're using

C) Broad knowledge in a computing topics; familiarity with other languages and platforms; experience solving problems in diverse computing environments

D) Subject matter expert in the domain you're working on - accounting, medicine, education, industry, public relations, etc.

E) Enthusiasm

F) Curiosity

G) Education

H) Logistics - person lives near you or is willing and able to relocate

I) Stability - can the candidate live with his or her means during tough times?

J) History of completing things

K) Communicates well

L) Polite

(not listed in any order)

It's too hard to follow the order that someone types. Is there a more user friendly way to present this information?

The critical two attributes in a successful partner without question are raw brainpower and an unwavering determination to succeed. Everything else is gravy.

'Sanity' made me chuckle. It's important, but it's like listing 'not a serial killer'.

Creativity [1] is another very important characteristic to have on the team. And luckily you can detect the most creative people within minutes of talking to them about hard problems.

[1] n. the use of the imagination or original ideas (O.A.D.)