Optimization Quotes

• True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

  George Dantzig

  Science, Decision, Research

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• Optimization hinders evolution.

  Alan Perlis

  Learning, Evolution, Programming

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• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

  Scott Adams

  Keys, Initiative

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• Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Helping, Management, Company

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• If you have a business website; make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage...then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising.

  Lynda Resnick

  Keys, Important, Trying

  "How Your Business Can Survive the Economic Collapse" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.

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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%.

  Donald Knuth

  Strong, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 1974.

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• I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.

  Donald Tusk

  Government, Research, Logistics

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• Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  Donald Knuth

  Science, Roots, Evil

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “TEX: The Program”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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  The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Morning, Business

  "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Insights For Entrepreneurs" by Steve Tobak, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

  William A. Dembski

  Art, Knowing, Design

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• In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

  Larry Constantine

  Moving, Important, Adaptation

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• Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  Alan Perlis

  Top Down, Simplicity, Doe

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• Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.

  Erik Naggum

  Competition, Way, Results

  "O'reilly subjugated to the Lisp juggenaut". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 18, 2004.

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• We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

  Jeff Atwood

  Computer, Programming, Software Engineering

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• The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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%

  Donald Knuth

  Opportunity, Roots, Evil

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• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  Donald Knuth

  Learning, Roots, Evil

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• Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

  Tony Hoare

  Roots, Evil, Simplicity

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• I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Views, Long, Design

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• Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

  Rob Pike

  Cache, Architecture

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• Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Marketing, Important, Pennies

  "Search Engines 101: Part I" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

  Nick Denton

  Believe, Web Content, Opinion

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• Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Practice, Goal, Working Together

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Self, Process, Unfolding

  Source: evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com

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