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by user51442 3721 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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..as well as "Structured Programming with go to Statements".