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Donald Knuth. “I do one thing at a time,” he says. “This is what computer scientists call batch processing—the alternative is swapping in and out. I don’t swap in and out.”
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
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From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”
Keep in mind that the most efficient algorithm is not always the algorithm of choice.
John Guttag • Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python, second edition: With Application to Understanding Data
A program that does everything in the most efficient possible way is often needlessly difficult to understand.