Rob Pike quotes
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“There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.”
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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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“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.”
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“When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.”
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“A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.”
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“Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.”
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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 guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is”
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“Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return”
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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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“Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination”
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“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 central to programming.”
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“Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.”
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“Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.”
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“Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”
-- Rob PikeSource : "Rob Pike Responds". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. October 18, 2004.
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“Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.”
-- Rob Pike
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