[newt]

"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM"... really shows a startling lack of understanding

Are you perhaps missing that it's a deliberate inversion of the more obvious statement "needing more RAM is for people who don't know how to use Algorithms" in order to make the point that RAM is cheaper than an engineer's time?

[nervechannel]

But many interesting problems can't be solved by throwing more RAM at them, because RAM isn't the bottleneck.

[alextgordon]

Are you suggesting that Jeff Atwood may be exaggerating?

[pavel_lishin]

Which is why you solve the boring problems by throwing RAM at them, and spend the time you just saved solving the interesting ones. :0