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“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%.”

Thinking Should Evil Opportunity Strong Forget Worry Amount Waste Negative Program Roots Impact Critical Speed Enormous Efficiency Programmers Maintenance Premature Optimization Debugging

Author:Donald Knuth

“They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.”

Ifs Heart Doe Evil Opportunity Judgment Draws Critical Repentance Death Penalty Malice Obstinate

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.”

Men World Wells Facts Joy Evil Found Opportunity Pleasure Accepting Ready Offers Endless Unlimited Ugliness Endless Opportunities

Book:Love

Source: Love

“People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.”

People Mind Ideas Seems Evil Opportunity Names Harder Towns Accomplish Privacy Gossip Idle Small Town

Book:Novels, 1930-1935

Source: Novels, 1930-1935

“Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.”

People Looks Evil Opportunity Share Goodness Bless True Nature Goodness Of God Evil Look

Author:Graham Cooke

“Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.”

Mind May Character Evil Opportunity Wealth Moral Objects Essentials Roots Relation Noble Pursuit Attributes Competence Love Of Money

Book:The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc

Source: The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc

“While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.”

People May Care Suffering Evil Opportunity Term Sin Intention Deeds Sovereign Short Term Prompts Evil People Enrichment Oversight

Book:Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

Source: Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

“No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.”

May Evil Opportunity Justice Clear Danger Speech Discussion Justify Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Emergencies Repression Incidence

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.”

Ifs Men Reason Passion Evil Opportunity Wife Caught Obvious Guilty Infidelity Adultery Another Man Caught In The Act

Author:Saint Augustine

“Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values: freedom and opportunity, which have lifted millions out of poverty. At home, these values allow Americans to use their God-given potential and make their dreams reality.”

Men Made War Use Home Dream Reality Values Evil Opportunity Given Force Poverty Millions Sacrifice Men And Women Brave Defeat Brave Man Just War Dream Reality

Author:Marco Rubio