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

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Tony Hoare

#Roots Quotes #Evil Quotes #Forget Quotes

“I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That'll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?”
“It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.”
“To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.”
“The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.”
“Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.”
“Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.”
“I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.”
“Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense of not wholly belonging. [...] The insider-outsider dichotomy gives life a degree of tension. Not of a needling, negative variety but rather a keep-on-your-toes sort of tension that can plunge or peak with sudden rushes of love or anger. Learning to recognise and interpret cultural behaviour is a vital step forward for expats anywhere, but it doesn't mean that you grow to appreciate all the differences.”

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