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Top 15 Rob Pike Quotes (2025 Update)

Rob Pike Quote: “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.”

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.”

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Rob Pike Quote: “Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.”

2. “Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.”

Rob Pike Quote: “Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.”

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

Rob Pike Quote: “Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.”

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

Rob Pike Quote: “Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.”

5. “Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.”

Rob Pike Quote: “Not only is UNIX dead, it’s starting to smell really bad.”

6. “Not only is UNIX dead, it’s starting to smell really bad.”

Rob Pike Quote: “When there is no type hierarchy you don’t have to manage the type hierarchy.”

7. “When there is no type hierarchy you don’t have to manage the type hierarchy.”

Rob Pike Quote: “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.”

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

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

Rob Pike Quote: “Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization.”

10. “Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization.”

Rob Pike Quote: “There’s nothing in computing that can’t be broken by another level of indirection.”

11. “There’s nothing in computing that can’t be broken by another level of indirection.”

Rob Pike Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

Rob Pike Quote: “Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return.”

13. “Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return.”

Rob Pike Quote: “There’s no such thing as a simple cache bug.”

14. “There’s no such thing as a simple cache bug.”

Rob Pike Quote: “A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.”

15. “A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.”

Rob Pike Quote: “Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination.”

16. “Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination.”

Rob Pike Quote: “Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”

17. “Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”

Rob Pike Quote: “Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it’s very useful.”

18. “Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it’s very useful.”

Rob Pike Quote: “Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.”

19. “Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.”

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