Able Quote by Erik Naggum

Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency…

— Donald Knuth

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express…

— Erik Naggum

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

— John Carmack

“I/O-bound programs are constrained by data access. These are programs where adding more processing power or RAM often makes little difference.”

— Jim R. Wilson

“Be careful, and go slowly. Computers are intolerant of mistakes; they do just what you tell them to do, not what you meant for…

— Peter H. Gregory

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”

— Arthur Bloch

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

— Eric S. Raymond

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

“No amount of excellence on the part of a computer can lead to the solution of a problem if the problem has been incorrectly…

— Edward de Bono

“minimum software requirements to program in C is a text editor, as opposed to a word processor. A plain text Notepad Editor can be…

— Wiki Books

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids…

— Edsger Dijkstra