Best waste & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?”

May Enough Desire Evil Waste Betray Modesty Sanctuary Lightness

Book:Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable... The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.”

World Evil Lord This World Return Waste Deeds Seeds Forbidden Merciful Missiles

Author:Ovadia Yosef

“When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.”

Source: Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the

“Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.”

Looks Facts Evil Cities Break Atheism Fool Kings Waste Built Luck Lays Calm Divinity Good And Evil Fraud Deceiving Oath Pious Fables Credence

Author:Euripides

“We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.”

Ifs Might Evil Waste Remedy Employed Impatience

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”

“And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?”

Made Earth Evil Crime Waste Dissatisfaction Unspeakable Whining Remorseless Whiners

Author:W. D. Snodgrass

“The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.”

Men World Feels Doe Lasts Spirit Evil Existence Waste Lays Radical Tension Meaning Of Life Good And Evil Last Words

Book:A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life

Source: A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life

“History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.”

Knows Men Want Humans Children Turns Evil Names Parent History Brother Waste News Pages Presses Painful Strikes Human Potential Children And Parents

Book:Education and Ecstasy: With,

Source: Education and Ecstasy: With,

“Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended.”

Used Evil Gone Magic Talent Products Waste Projects Billions Used To Be Hated Corporations Pun

Author:Simon Sinek

“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”

Life Trying Believe Government Evil I Believe Wise Waste Wasting Time

Author:H. L. Mencken

“In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.”

Ifs Should Might Evil Causes Attention Waste Patience Remove Remedy Complaints Avoided Impatience

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.”

Needs Trying Long Would Be Evil Waste Argument Originals Add Killing Nonsense Remove Wasting Time Execution Theoretical Death Penalty Judicial Atrocities Deterrent

Author:Auberon Waugh

“God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."”

Doe Soul Inspiration Past Faith Evil Sin Grace Waste Christian Inspirational Literal

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

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