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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

“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.”

Government Roles Growing Waste Educational Enormous Taxpayers Schooling Educational System Financing

Author:Milton Friedman

“As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first is whatever their actual job is; the second consists of managing others' impressions of them, especially by hiding weaknesses and inadequacies - which is an enormous waste of energy.”

Firsts Two Jobs Energy Waste Weakness Enormous Impression Hiding Harvard Psychologist Inadequacy Developmental Two Jobs Work Place

Author:Ray Dalio

“Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.”

Ifs Energy Differences Amount Demand Waste Enormous

Author:David Attenborough

“Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.”

Industry Waste Enormous Fantastic Waste Disposal

Author:Felix Dennis

“We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.”

Trying Heart Faces Found Amount Waste Resources Adversity Depth Storm Enormous Locked Defeated Locked Up

Author:Paulo Coelho

“This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.”

Ifs Way Said Two Soul Reason Life Is Dies Possibility Higher Waste Enormous This Life No Reason Wasting Time Dormant More To Life

Book:Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”

Ifs Risk Please Waste Increase Enormous Our Time

Book:The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”

Government Effort Liberty Economic Amount Waste Economics Libertarian Planning Enormous Delusion Libertarianism Sloth Government Spending Inefficiency Government Waste

Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory”