That's an extremely simplistic, sort of childish response. No one besmirches Donald Knuth. Taking a quote, out of context really, and using it everywhere as so

That's an extremely simplistic, sort of childish response. No one besmirches Donald Knuth. Taking a quote, out of context really, and using it everywhere as some sort of justification, nay, an unthinking reflex, is, indeed, using it as a crutch.