“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%.” ThinkingShouldEvilOpportunityStrongForgetWorryAmountWasteNegativeProgramRootsImpactCriticalSpeedEnormousEfficiencyProgrammersMaintenancePrematureOptimizationDebugging Author:Donald Knuth
“People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.” PeopleThinkingFeelsDifferentQualityFocusAreasNegativeAspectImpactComplainingFeel GoodRealisticYou ChooseBeing RealJust BeingDiscouragingAspects Of LifeThinking Differently Author:Hal Elrod
“Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.” YearsWellsLastsGreaterIndustryPaperNegativeImpactWideExpectedAdvertisingCaliforniaSundayCategoriesQuartersWeekendDeclineFourthPapersRetailFourth Quarter Author:Gary Pruitt
“Thanks to the FedDev Ontario funding we were able to get a number of key initiatives underway to mitigate the potential negative economic impact of the Heinz closure. With this additional funding we will continue to be in high gear within the food processing sector to continue with business retention, expansion and attraction activities in the Windsor-Essex region.” AbleNumbersEconomicKeysActivityNegativeImpactAttractionThanksRegionsInitiativeExpansionFundingGearsClosureProcessingRetentionOntarioWindsorEssex Author:Sandra Pupatello
“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.” IfsCareMy OwnRoomsPositiveHairGainsNegativeWeightImpactCaringTake CareTake Care Of YourselfWeighingCaring Too Much Book:Openly Straight Source: Openly Straight
“We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.” FeelsLongReasonActionPresidentTermJudgingCitizensConsequenceNegativeImpactCampaignsLong TermPresidencyComebackPublic Trust Author:David Greenberg
“The drafting of a legally binding instrument concerning the human rights impacts of the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises has been proposed. Such a treaty or convention should strengthen the United Nations “protect, respect and remedy” framework of the Guiding Principles, which were unanimously endorsed by the Human Rights Council in 2011.” HumansRightsActivityNegativeImpactHuman RightsCorporationsTransnational Corporations Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.” UseGoalLandTypeDevelopmentStandardsNegativeImpactWideVarietyEfficientFlexibilityHousingReducingLand Use Author:Bill Vaughan
“One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.” ThinkingMenWayImportantActionTogetherWalksResultsEffortEconomyPsychologyPlansBuildingSpringNegativeImpactFabricApril Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.” IfsYearsDifferentForceBusinessSituationEnvironmentInfluencePossibilityNegativeYears AgoImpactAssumingBunchOptimisticPositivelyNegative Influence Author:Jeffrey Hollender
“Planned Parenthood gave me an award for the Willie Parker story that I was deeply honored by. I didn't get any negative comments. I think the Willie Parker piece had more of an impact on people in that sense because it went deeper into the clinic itself.” PeopleThinkingStoriesPiecesNegativeImpactDeeperAwardsParenthoodCommentHonoredClinicPlanned ParenthoodNegative Comments Author:John H Richardson
“One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.” ThinkingShouldWritingLooksHomeWantedSchoolPastGivenParentWonderOne ThingChildhoodDevelopmentNegativeImpactNotesIntellectMy ThoughtsAbsentMy PastBulliedPast ExperiencesHome LifeFreedom To ReadChildhood Home Author:Marie Calloway
“What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be measured in terms of its political effect. It's the very spiritual uplift of the nation. It's the very tenor and tone, morally speaking, of what this country is about. And so the unleashing of these fierce and ferocious beliefs have a potential impact that is quite deleterious, quite negative, quite destructive. And I think we have to say something.” ThinkingCountrySpiritualPoliticalBeliefNationsTermTalkingEffectsTrumpNegativeImpactUpliftingToneExtrasDestructiveFierceTenorsUnleashing Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all these things that human beings are having negative impacts on at this time, are concerning to me. I wanted to do whatever I could to be a part of the solution and not just be a part of the problem.” HumansProblemKidsWantedParentWaterHuman BeingsOceanSolutionsHappeningsNegativeImpactDeforestation Author:Don Cheadle
“[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.” PeopleMindLooksPersonsStatesHomeYoungFightingNextSocialLosesPayAttentionMediaSeriousTerribleNegativeImpactAthleteSocial MediaProfessionState Of MindRise AboveYoung AthletesRise Above It Author:David Haye
“I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsSeemsCultureIndividualTeachTeacherStudentsReaderNegativeTestsStressImpactScriptsFavorsScoreFollowersStakesSchedulesTestingDisregardStudent LearningTest Scores Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.” ThinkingWorldKindRealReasonHelpingHumanityCan DoMajorsConcernNegativeImpactPopulationExpandingArmament Author:Amartya Sen
“While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and economically, as well as the overwhelming burden of sexual violence is disproportionately borne by women.” MenWellsViolenceNegativeImpactMajorityBurdenGenderInequalityOverwhelmingStereotypeGender StereotypesGender Inequality Author:Laura Bates
“The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.” MenShouldChildrenEndsFactsProblemJobsRolesConcernNegativeFemalePaidImpactCaringAcceptedExplanationWagesHaving ChildrenPart TimePositive ImpactPressured Author:Laura Bates
“The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating.” IfsWantWellsDoePartyNegativeHarderImpactDemocraticCheatingDemocratic Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.” StatesShowsJobsLawGrowthNumbersImpossibleOne ThingEffectsNegativeImpactWorkersFactorsReasonableMultitudesWagesEconomistJob Growth Author:Eliot Spitzer
“With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.” WorldWayHumansTechnologyGrowingModernDemandLimitsNegativeImpactSevenPopulationBillionsCyclesConvenienceBetter WaysWay To LiveHuman PopulationModern Conveniences Author:David Suzuki
“If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.” IfsWantUseProblemEnergySourceResourcesNegativeImpactEnvironmentalAddictionKicksFuelGlobal WarmingAddressesFewerFossilsFossil FuelEnvironmental ProblemsBurning Fossil Fuels Author:David Suzuki
“There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.” WellsChildrenCountryGirlMillionsEconomicDevelopmentLowsNegativeIndiaImpactWell BeingLiteracyIlliterateEconomic DevelopmentLack Of Education Author:Sachin Tendulkar
“Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.” IfsDoeMatterDealsHundredNegativeConnectionsImpactIsolatedOutburst Book:Infamous: Chronicles of Nick Source: Infamous: Chronicles of Nick
“At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.” FirstsEndsHumanityKnownDestinyEventsFirst TimeNegativeImpactDuesRecognitionNotableContinuum Author:Aberjhani
“Put on the company hat. (Be willing to accept actions that may have a negative impact upon a particular component but are in the best interests of the company as a whole.)” MayWholeActionInterestCompanyAcceptingParticularWillingNegativeImpactLoyaltyHatsComponents Author:Reginald H. Jones
“I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very superficial, running around the country opening crisp packets, as they say, never really engaging with the substance of what was being debated and it clearly had a hugely negative impact on this country.” CountryRunningStyleGayNegativeImpactOpeningSubstanceSuperficialEngagingAppreciatedGay RightsCrisps Author:Lucinda Creighton
“Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects” WayPhilosophyFactsPoliticalResultsCuttingEffectsTaxesNegativeEconomicsIncreaseImpactSignificantIntuitivePersistentReductionTax CutsOutputTax Increases Author:Christina Romer
“Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They're not just about contaminants on your plate. They're not just about the ice depleting. They're about the issue of humanity. What we do every day - whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China ... can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source.” PeopleWayStatesEarthHumanityUnitedUnited StatesIssuesSourceKeysNegativeImpactClimateClimate ChangeChinaConnectedRussiaIceMexicoFar AwayPlatesEarth DayGreen EarthHappy Earth Day Author:Sheila Watt-Cloutier
“Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.” PeopleThinkingKindDealsGreaterEffectsNegativeImpactAll KindsHypocrisyMarijuanaEngagingOlder PeopleUnfairness Author:Barney Frank