About Quote by Paul Graham

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

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

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

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

At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.

— Ryan Holmes

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

— John Carmack

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

— Miguel de Cervantes

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

— Anonymous

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

— Ralph Caplan

Don't bring on the design engineers too soon. One of the worst things you can do in the early phases of a project is…

— Bruce Pittman

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really…

— Khoi Vinh