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Programming Quotes by Rob Pike
- Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
- 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…
- 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.
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- When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis
- Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying… — Ken Keyes Jr.