The best performance improvement is the transition from…

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you…

— Brian Kernighan

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware…

— Henry Petroski

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

— Gordon Bell

The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.

— John Ousterhout

I'm working for my state first.

— Lisa Murkowski

My stand has always been clear that I am from Gujarat and will keep working for the state.

— Narendra Modi

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

— Ron Williams

“Whether we are rookies or grizzled veterans, let’s put down our guards, check our pride at the door, and try not to be defensive.…

— Mike Weinberg

“At some point performance improvement levels off and does not outweigh the added costs of increased overhead and measurements—unless you decouple cycles from overhead,…

— Anonymous

“Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the…

— Alan G. Robinson

It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

— Keith Braithwaite

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

— Fred Brooks

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software…

— Anonymous

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

— Robert Coveyou