"Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves……" — Rob Pike

"Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic."

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15 Quotes by Rob Pike

Rob Pike has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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.…
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…
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.

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More Disallow Quotes

This quote is filed under Disallow Quotes, one of 6 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession,… — Unknown Author
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, — Yitzhak Shamir
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet.… — Rush Limbaugh
By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to… — Tim Ferriss
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It… — Marilynne Robinson

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