We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- Donald Knuth
La connaissance d'un défaut ne l'enlève pas, elle nous torture jusqu'à sa correction. -- Daniel Lovewin (Guillaume Kpotufe)
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth
Something Confusing about "Hard": It's tempting to think that if it's hard, then it's valuable. Most valuable things are hard. Most hard things are completely useless -- (picture of someone smashing their head through concrete blocks kung-fu style). Hard DOES NOT EQUATE TO BEING valuable. Remember Friendster back in the day? You'd sign in, invite friends, have 25 friends, go to their profile, and then it'd show how you were connected to each one. That's an impressive [some geeky CS jargon] Cone traversal of a tree - 100 million string comparisons per page -- it won't scale. Used to take a minute per page to load, and Friendster died a painful death. MySpace -- not interested in solving problems They use the shortcut of "Miss Fitzpatrick is in your extended network" (i.e. even when you're not even signed up for MySpace) They didn't solve the hard problem. But they make the more relevant assumption that you want to be connected to hot women. [LOL] Shows Alexa graph showing that in early 2005 Myspace took off, and quickly bypassed Friendster and never looked back. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)
Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown
If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal