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by thejaredhooper 3710 days ago
The actual quote is "premature emphasis on efficiency is a big mistake which may well be the source of most programming complexity and grief."

The 'summarized' catch-phrase always bothers me; the choice between optimized code and inefficient code is always clear to me.
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user51442 3710 days ago
The "premature optimization" quote is from Knuth's Turing Award lecture:

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/370000/361612/a1974-knuth.pd...

"The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming."

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user51442 3710 days ago
..as well as "Structured Programming with go to Statements".
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