“Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.”
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Famous Rob Pike Quotes
“Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”
“Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.”
“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.”
“There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.”