Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All

The Enjoyment Of One's Tools Is An Essential Ingredient Of Successful Work.

Science Is Knowledge Which We Understand So Well That We Can Teach It To A Computer; And If We Don't Fully Understand Something, It Is An Art To Deal With It.

Programs Are Meant To Be Read By Humans And Only Incidentally For Computers To Execute.

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%.

Always Remember, However, That There’s Usually A Simpler And Better Way To Do Something Than The First Way That Pops Into Your Head.