That quip would also be an argument against error-correcting codes. Whatever I think of PHP I'm not gonna look to Confucius for engineering advice. (Now Laozi on the other hand... :)
As far as arguments about ECC, I always enjoyed the parody of a saying attributed to JWZ: 'Someone has a problem and they think, I know, I'll use error-correcting codes! Now they either have 0 or 2 problems.'
