“Shut up and calculate” is to physics what “premature optimization” and “security through obscurity” are to computer science. Meaning that the people who know t

“Shut up and calculate” is to physics what “premature optimization” and “security through obscurity” are to computer science. Meaning that the people who know the actual contexts in which these phrases arose are simply weary of explaining their meanings to people who imagine that they understand them, and have long since given up.