I'd rather make music than tour.
Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you've got to start saving. It's not easy.
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.
I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great big shoulders, and that just isn't us. But then a big, powerful swimmer isn't going to be so good on the bike and the run.
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
I know sometimes I played to the crowd, and it did cost me.