Yeah, I hate that quote too. People take it so out of context and even ignore engineering for reasonable performance out of the box. I don't blame Knuth, he's

Yeah, I hate that quote too. People take it so out of context and even ignore engineering for reasonable performance out of the box. I don't blame Knuth, he's talking about focusing on micro-optimizations, but a lot of devs nowadays don't even care to get basic performance right.