"It doesn't matter how much faster you make the hardware, the software guys will piss it away and then some more." - Unknown Edit: Thanks to the other comments

"It doesn't matter how much faster you make the hardware, the software guys will piss it away and then some more." - Unknown Edit: Thanks to the other comments, I can see it's a crude re-stating of Wirth's Law [0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law