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Efficiency Quotes by Donald Knuth
- 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…
- Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually…
More Efficiency Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be… — Russell Baker
- Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency. — Mark Spitz
- Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup
- During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things. — Peter Drucker
- The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in… — Adolf Hitler