Rob Pike Program Quotations

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

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

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.

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

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