Premature Quotes

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. (Peter Ustinov)
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. View quote
George Boole
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. View quote
Donald Knuth
Utopias are often only premature truths. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes a man. View quote
Karl Kraus
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. View quote
C. A. R. Hoare
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. View quote
Francis Crick
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions. View quote
George Sarton
The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other vist the human race. (Thomas Malthus)
In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own. View quote
Maria Edgeworth
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning. View quote
Florence Nightingale
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. View quote
Anton Chekhov
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. View quote
Franz Kafka
The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other characteristics, such as greater efficiency, is very common in mathematics. It is a very fruitful practice which should not be blighted by premature emphasis on efficiency in computer execution. View quote
Kenneth E. Iverson
The premature deaths of infants have nothing in them to suggest the thought that one who so terminates his life is subject to some grievous misfortune, any more than they are to be put on a level with the deaths of those who have purified themselves in this life by every kind of virtue. (Gregory of Nyssa)
I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian) Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice. View quote
Michael Greger
He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature. View quote
Paul Reiser
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital. View quote
Buzz Bissinger