Code Quote by Stephen Hawking

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...

— Larry Wall

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

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

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

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

— W. Edwards Deming

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

— Bill Gates

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

— John Carmack

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

— Richard E. Pattis

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

— Jeff Atwood

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

— Rosamund Pike