Donald Knuth’s quote 'Premature optimization is the root of all evil' should be pinned to every developer's monitor. 💯 Write for readability and maintainability first; optimize only when the metrics tell you it’s absolutely necessary!
Absolutely, Vijay! Knuth’s quote is legendary for a reason. Until you have production-level metrics or actual user traffic profiles showing a bottleneck, trying to pre-optimize is usually just burning engineering hours. Readability is what keeps a codebase alive; clever tricks just make it brittle. 💯