
„Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.“
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 BC
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— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 BC
— Donald Ervin Knuth, Literate Programming
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%.
Variant in Knuth, "Structured Programming with Goto Statements" http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf. Computing Surveys 6:4 (December 1974), pp. 261–301, §1.
Knuth refers to this as "Hoare's Dictum" 15 years later in "The Errors of Tex", Software—Practice & Experience 19:7 (July 1989), pp. 607–685. However, the attribution to C. A. R. Hoare is doubtful. http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimization-is-the-root-of-all-evil/
All three of these papers are reprinted in Knuth, Literate Programming, 1992, Center for the Study of Language and Information ISBN 0937073806
Source: Computer Programming as an Art (1974), p. 671
— Emil M. Cioran, book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
The New Gods (1969)
— Markus Persson Swedish video game programmer 1979
In response to the Silence procedure phrase "qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit" (Thus, silence gives consent, when he ought to have spoken and was able to) (14 August 2017) https://twitter.com/notch/status/897158641962319878
— Anton LaVey, book The Devil's Notebook
The Devil's Notebook (1992)
Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— John Chrysostom important Early Church Father 349 - 407
St. John Chrysostom, Homily 24 on the Epistle to the Romans [PG 60:626-27] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/10/contraception-early-church-teaching-william-klimon.html
— W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939
Source: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 19–22
— Zoroaster Persian prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism
Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 30, 3.
The Gathas
— Ovadia Yosef Israeli rabbi 1920 - 2013
5 December 2004 article on New York Times https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E5DD1730F936A25751C1A9629C8B63
2001
— Madhvacharya Hindu philosopher who founded Dvaita Vedanta school 1199 - 1278
Quoted from [Martha Bush Ashton, Martha Bush Ashton-Sikora, Bruce Christie, Yakṣagāna, a Dance Drama of India, 23, http://books.google.com/books?id=ug3DNI-1xwUC&pg=PA23, 1977, Abhinav Publications, 23–].
— Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979
"A Plea For Intolerance" (1931)
— T. H. White, book The Book of Merlyn
The Book of Merlyn (1977)