Rob Pike Quotations

Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

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

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

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

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

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

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.