I agree with you. I find many reasons to know math during my career and in my programming hobbies. It is hard for me to ever take the statement seriously. We

I agree with you. I find many reasons to know math during my career and in my programming hobbies. It is hard for me to ever take the statement seriously. We are not even talking about calculus here... I surprised a fellow developer in the Dark Mists MUD by converting a table into a simple linear formula ("What should Y be when X is at this point in the range?"); this is grade school geometry, right? I just needed the formula for a line! In my regular work, it is surprising how many times people do not understand the need for variance or standard deviation when they are looking for quality in averages of their data sets. So web programming? If you have to put up charts of large data sets, things will get hairy without at least knowing how to interpolate the data points. A slow website may be a result of brute-force simplistic approaches in the code. Some of the packages we use (such as jQuery) require some good math knowledge to implement (example: drag-and-drop). We certainly cannot generalize that in web programming, it is acceptable to not know math. You can get away with not using math in our industry if you leave it to others to do it for you.