41 Quotes by Rob Pike

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.

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

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

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.

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. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

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

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination