41 Quotes by Rob Pike

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

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.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don’t want to know what they’re better than.

Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization.

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.

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.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination.