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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not…

— Donald Knuth

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency…

— Donald Knuth

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...

— Larry Wall

To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts

— W. Edwards Deming

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

— John Carmack

Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally…

— Erik Naggum

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

— Alan Perlis

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things…

— Peter Drucker

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

— George Dantzig