Premature Optimization Quotes

#1. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [

Joshua Bloch

#2. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

Donald Knuth

#3. Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Paul Graham

#4. By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.

David Steindl-Rast

#5. The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.

Stendhal

#6. Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Phil Donahue

#7. But in the end, if everything goes to plan, I'll have 92 square meters of crop-able soil. Hell yeah I'm a botanist! Fear my botany powers!

Andy Weir

#8. All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#9. He would change my life and behave with selfless cruelty as he prepared to set out on a journey with no hope of return.

Ian McEwan

#10. With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.

Dustin Johnson

#11. Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

D.H. Lawrence