Broken Quote by Larry Wall

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Anonymous

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

— Rosamund Pike

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

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

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

— Bill Gates

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

— W. Edwards Deming

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

— Anonymous

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

— George Dantzig

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

— Barack Obama