Idiocy Quote by Rob Pike Download Open image “Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.” — Rob Pike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idiocy Idiotic Language Programming Trying
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
What makes stupidity really insufferable is that it is forever in action - idiocy knows no rest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses -… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
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… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
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… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However,… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
