Optimizer Quotes & Sayings

As always excuses come, always there is some kind of excuse.... So many excuses so far sound like, "Please get out..."! — Deyth Banger

But I cannot accept a vision of You as an engineer who spends His days maintaining the machine of morality. I cannot take the idea of You as an optimizer, introducing evil into human affairs in an attempt to create the best of all possible worlds. I cannot bear this cold mathematician's God who sees all the universe as nothing more than an elaborate problem to be solved. Such a world is a world with no meaning, one in which one history is no more or less preferable to any other. — Dexter Palmer

The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself. — Bob Burg

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless. — Frederick Lenz

Come on, buddy
she's pretty cute. After another beer, she'll go up to really cute. — Katie Allen

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself. — William J.H. Boetcker

You have to conquer the mountain if you are going any futher — Olav H. Hauge

My love, there is no plan B. — Melody Carstairs

Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself. — Nisargadatta Maharaj

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected. — Vironika Tugaleva

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough. — Robert Crandall

Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it. — Jenny Eclair

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely. — Pierce Brosnan

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer? — Stephen Hawking

When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him. — Andrew Flintoff

She chuckled to herself, pressed send, and wandered around the airport for half an hour, sporadically checking Twitter. "I got nothing," she told me. "No replies." I imagined her feeling a bit deflated about this - that sad feeling when nobody congratulates you for being funny, that black silence when the Internet doesn't talk back. — Jon Ronson

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally ... — Larry Wall

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer. — Larry Wall