Rob Pike Programming Quotations

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

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

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

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

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

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.