“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
“We have the Israelis coming to us for equipment. We can say we can't possibly get the Congress to support a program like this. And they say don't worry about the Congress. We will take care of the Congress. This is somebody from another country, but they can do it. They own, you know, the banks in this country. The newspapers. Just look at where the Jewish money is.” KnowsLooksCountryCareCan DoWorrySupportProgramCongressJewTake CareNewspapersEquipment Author:George Scratchley Brown
“The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.” PeopleMadeGovernmentTurnsDecisionWorryProgramFree MarketConstraintsAllureGovernment Programs Author:Thomas Sowell
“My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you write YA or fantasy or what-have-you is just absurd, but we do, because the presumption is that they're closed to that sort of thing. You're offering an MFA in creative writing? Teach people how to write well, worry about that part, let the writers come up with the stories.” PeopleWritingWellsStoriesReadingTeachWorryFantasyCreativeHorrorProgramCome UpAbsurdSellingOfferingCreative WritingPresumption Author:Tod Goldberg
“If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of things I wouldn't fret about: a reality television program depicting the lives of ordinary Americans; a clause in a contract between parties to a business transaction agreeing that any disputes that arise between them be resolved in compliance with shared religious principles; halal soup; halal turkeys on the Thanksgiving table.” IfsStatesRealityReligiousUnitedPartyPrinciplesWorryUnited StatesTelevisionOrdinaryProgramTablesListsAriseContractsSoupDisputesTurkeysTransactionsComplianceClausesReality TelevisionHalal Author:Sarah Posner
“Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.' But I think what people need is the sense of not being alone. They go to MFA programs to be part of a community of people who care, and then you start caring about your friend who is trying to edit a magazine and your other friend who is stuck in the middle of her poem. There you have all kinds of things to worry about besides your own success.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsTryingKindCareCommunityWorryMiddleProgramCaringStuckAll KindsMagazinesWho CaresEditsStuck In The Middle Author:Alice Mattison
“We should balance the budget. If government programs are important enough, we need to pay for them with taxes or make cuts in lesser programs. We've lost that discipline entirely. It seems prudent to avoid the possibility that the people who own our debt will start to worry the U.S. won't pay. That would raise how much it would cost the U.S. to borrow, which in a national emergency, like a war or pandemic, could be critical.” PeopleImportantWarEnoughWorryCuttingPossibilityBalanceDisciplineTaxesProgram Author:Robert J. Samuelson
“In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn't think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.” ThinkingGivingWorryProudGiving UpProgramAstronautPrestigeBig PictureJust Give Up Author:Leroy Chiao
“Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.” PeopleHardTogetherWorrySuccessfulHard WorkBasketballProgramCreditCoachingWorking TogetherBasketball CoachingInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballBasketball CoachBasketball MotivationBasketball TeamGood BasketballBasketball SuccessBasketball Winning Author:Don Meyer