Quotes About Optimality

You have a naïve understanding of evolutionary processes. There's no such thing as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternatives.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

There is always a best way of doing everything.