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Root 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…
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