Cybersecurity Quote by John Carmack

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

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

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

— Carroll Smith

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing…

— Paul Graham

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

— Linus Torvalds

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

— Bruce Tognazzini

Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.

— Havoc Pennington