Rob Pike Quotes
- Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
- Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
- Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.
- Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
- Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are…
- Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
- If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
- Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return
- Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess…
- Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
- A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.
- When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.
- Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
- Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.
- There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.