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Optimists will pretend you're invisible.
Optimization hinders evolution.
Optimization is not free. Gratuitous optimization can be translated directly >into missing features or later release dates.
-- Peter da Silva, peter@ficc.ferranti.com ...and more bugs. ...and perf...
Optimization is not some mystical state of grace, it is an intricate act of human labor which carries real costs and real risks.
-- Tom Neff...
Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
[Often experienced when asked what kind of salad dressing one wants....
OPTOMETRISTS do it face-to-face.
| -O_q- Cunning Pike With Monacle
ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE: The word "No".
Oralgami - The ancient Japanese art of folding words.
Or almost like a spider, who, confin'd In her web's centre, shakt with every winde, Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie Stir but a string of her lawn canapie.
-- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine...

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