"Related, it is remarkable how we developers routinely cite Knuth's advice about premature optimization to justify our decision when the shoe fits, and then tur

"Related, it is remarkable how we developers routinely cite Knuth's advice about premature optimization to justify our decision when the shoe fits, and then turn around and flatly ignore the advice when it doesn't fit." It is especially bad when people uses Knuth's advice to forgo the conception part where you think about what technologies you will use and why.