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Optimization hinders evolution. -- Alan Perlis
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company. -- W. Edwards Deming
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results. -- Erik Naggum
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. -- Scott Adams
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion. -- Nick Denton
I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas. -- Donald Tusk
Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks. -- Louis Navellier
Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals. -- Marc Ostrofsky
Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. -- Marc Ostrofsky
I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium. -- Martin Fleischmann
If you have a business website, make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage... then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the Internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising. -- Lynda Resnick
Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization. -- Rob Pike
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- Donald Knuth
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. -- Tony Hoare
In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization. -- Larry Constantine
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes. -- George Dantzig
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- Donald Knuth
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
When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process. -- Yasuhiko Kimura
The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator. -- Hugh Jackman
Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives. -- William A. Dembski
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
I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization. -- Sam Altman
Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do. -- Paul Graham
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- Donald Knuth

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