Donald Knuth Quote

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

p. 671 - Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature...

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature...

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature...

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature...