Time Premature Quotes
- We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Tony Hoare
- 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