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“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “TEX: The Program”, Addison-Wesley Professional
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“I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.”
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“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
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“Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.”
Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “Addresses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
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“No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.”
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“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
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“Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.”
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“There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.”
Source : "Biographical Memoirs" edited by Darleane C. Hoffman, (p. 252), 2000.
