"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

-- Donald Knuth

#Strong Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We have to broaden our appeal to more customers than simply high-end customers. We have to understand that, in the aggregate, there are fewer customers out there, so we have to appeal to them all,”
“I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.”
“The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.”
“If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?”
“There is no such thing as loving or believing too much.”
“I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.”
“Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.”
“People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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