Computers Quote by Rob Pike Download Open image “Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.” — Rob Pike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers Computing Language Listening Music Programming Programming languages Software engineering Unix
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop. — Ed Simons Copy Share Image
I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, — Dennis Ritchie 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
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
