“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
“I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.” ThinkingShouldBigsDifferencesLandBenefitsProgramProfitEnormousFarmsFarmersAgricultureDistressingConsolidationFamily Farms Author:Barack Obama
“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.” IfsMenWisdomPoliticalPoliticsLeaderEconomyFateProgramLeavingEnormousLiberalismOblivionUtopiaPolitical LeadersInitiate Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world.” WorldAttentionAuthorityProgramEnormousAround The WorldWelfareNot InterestedSupporterBehalfCubaCastroEnrichmentHealth EducationWelfare Programs Author:Tom Gjelten
“We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner space. We need inner space exploration. We need to have access to more capacities in order to be adequate stewards of this most incredible process of transformation in human history.” NeedsHumansOrderProcessSpaceNeededCapacityProgramOppositesTransformationIncrediblesAccessEnormousDimensionsExplorationAdequateDomainHuman HistoryAstronautSpace ExplorationStewards Author:Jean Houston
“Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time, accelerate Medicare's and Social Security's slide into insolvency and put enormous strain on our public-assistance programs.” FactsHelpingSocialSecurityBalanceProgramDollarsAddDebtScalesEnormousImmigrationBudgetsAssistanceStrainSocial SecuritySlidesMedicareImmigration ReformAccelerateLarge ScaleAmnestyInsolvency Author:Jeff Sessions