A Quote by W. Edwards Deming

Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.

W. Edwards Deming

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W. Edwards Deming
American - Scientist
October 14, 1900 - December 20, 1993

We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we’ll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.

Matt Cutts

Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.

Marvin Ammori

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Paul Graham

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan Perlis

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Rob Pike

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Donald Knuth

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

Tony Hoare

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

George Dantzig

Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.

Marc Ostrofsky

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

Larry Constantine

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

Sam Altman

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Scott Adams

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

Larry Wall

Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after all, is home to some 120 million Internet domains and tens of billions of indexed pages. But every company, big or small, can draw more Google traffic by using search-engine optimization - SEO, for short.