"resource scarcity is the mother of quality code" I don't know, your mileage may vary with this one. I have had to make code less readable to make it more eff

"resource scarcity is the mother of quality code" I don't know, your mileage may vary with this one. I have had to make code less readable to make it more efficient more often than I've been forced to find a more elegant way because the clever hack was too slow.