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

- Rob Pike

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structu…

- Rob Pike

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

- Rob Pike

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

- Rob Pike

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

- Rob Pike

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

- Rob Pike

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

- Rob Pike

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

- Rob Pike

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

- Rob Pike