Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, bu… - Erik Naggum

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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.

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About Erik Naggum

Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.

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Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants "speed".

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

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