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Optimization Quotes by Donald Knuth
- Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
- 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 Optimization Quotes
- Optimization hinders evolution. — Alan Perlis
- We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic… — Nick Denton
- We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. — Scott Adams
- True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes. — George Dantzig
- Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm… — Thomas Finneran
- Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological… — William A. Dembski
- Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a… — Marc Ostrofsky
- Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. — Tony Hoare