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"premature optimization is the root of all evil", definitely my favorite quote. Here is a full quote:
In DonaldKnuth's paper "StructuredProgrammingWithGoToStatements", he wrote: "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%."
I've seen this one everywhere, I think it's part of the human nature, or programmers nature. I think it also translates in into spending ages to implement features based on "What if ...". You can fill the blanks.