Rob Pike Quotes
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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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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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Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.
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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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Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.
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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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There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.
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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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Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.
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Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
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Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
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There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
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Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.
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Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
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Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
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Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return
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Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
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