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Rob Pike Quotes

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge Picture Quote #1

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other Picture Quote #1

Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages Picture Quote #1

The process of software development doesn’t feel any better than it did a generation ago Picture Quote #1

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There’s no such thing as a simple cache bug Picture Quote #1

Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization Picture Quote #1

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return Picture Quote #1

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate Picture Quote #1

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic Picture Quote #1

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building Picture Quote #1

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Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it’s very useful Picture Quote #1

When there is no type hierarchy you don’t have to manage the type hierarchy Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There’s nothing in computing that can’t be broken by another level of indirection Picture Quote #1

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Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination (Rob Pike Quotes) 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 (Rob Pike Quotes) To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. (Rob Pike Quotes) Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. (Rob Pike Quotes) Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages. (Rob Pike Quotes) The process of software development doesn’t feel any better than it did a generation ago (Rob Pike Quotes) There’s no such thing as a simple cache bug (Rob Pike Quotes) Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization (Rob Pike Quotes) Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return (Rob Pike Quotes) A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate (Rob Pike Quotes) Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic (Rob Pike Quotes) Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building (Rob Pike Quotes) Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it’s very useful (Rob Pike Quotes) When there is no type hierarchy you don’t have to manage the type hierarchy (Rob Pike Quotes) 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 (Rob Pike Quotes) There’s nothing in computing that can’t be broken by another level of indirection (Rob Pike Quotes)