Aim Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— John Carmack

To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts

— W. Edwards Deming

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

— Anonymous

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not…

— Donald Knuth

“TIME TO OPTIMIZE We need to rethink our workflow from the ground up. Paradoxically, you hold both the problem and the solution to your…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

Any systems can always be made better.

— Erik Prince

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large…

— Richard Thaler

To embrace complexity is to treasure diversity. To eliminate uncertainties is to limit possibilities. Be ready to walk out of your comfort zone for…

— Kelvin Chau

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a…

— Fernando J. Corbato

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

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

— William Arthur Ward

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

— Bill Gates