Premature Optimization Quotes
- Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. — Tony Hoare
- We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Tony Hoare
- Premature optimization is the root of all evil. — 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… — Donald Knuth
- 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… — Donald Knuth
- Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too… — Paul Graham