The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.

- John Ousterhout

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

- John Ousterhout

There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.

- John Ousterhout

A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.

- John Ousterhout