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“Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very…” quote by Rob Pike — Download Open image

“Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.”

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Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

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When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

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Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

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Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

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Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

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If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

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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…

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Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

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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…

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A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

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Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

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Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition…

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Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Mortimer Zuckerman

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

Thomas Jefferson

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Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

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I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get…

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Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building…

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T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people…

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I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

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Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

Curtis W. Fentress

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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So…

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