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Robert "Rob" C. Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on Go (programming language) and at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language.

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

Educate, Programming, Smart, Smartass, Terminal

Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

Ios, Window, Interfaces, Windows, Sockets

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

Bad, Smell, Starting, Unix

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

Language, Listening, Music, Unix, Using

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

Function, Names, Return, Should

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

Hierarchy, Manage, Programming, Type

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

Broken, Computing, Indirection, Levels, Programming

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

Architecture, Cache, Caches, Optimization

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.

Algorithms, Data, Organized, Programming, Self, Structures

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

Exciting, Language, Programming, Useful

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

Engineering, Engineers, Important, Management, Rules

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Become, Idiotic, Language, Languages, Programming, Trying

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

Good, Good Things, Know, Thing, Thread, Want

There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

Simple, Cache, Bugs, Thing

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

Hack, Program, Speed, Tell, Trying

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Experience, Imagination, Leads, Narrowness

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.

Complicated, Easy, Fix, Simple

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Computing, Design, Roman, Roman Numerals

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

Building, Decided, Eventually, Thinking, Trying