Quotes from Rob Pike

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

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

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages.

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

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

Unix never says "please."

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

You have to make a decision whether it's a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out.

Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.