Business Quote by W. Edwards Deming

“Optimization' means moving toward peak performance.”

— Steven J. Bowen

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

— W. Edwards Deming

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

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

— Patrick deWitt

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.

— Anonymous

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

— Laurence J. Peter

Management's job is to optimize the whole system.

— W. Edwards Deming

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

— Ted Danson

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

— George Dantzig