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Rob Pike Quotes

born 1956 Canada

Rob Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian software engineer and author, best known for his work at Bell Labs and contribution in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs, the Inferno operating systems, the Limbo programming language, and the Go programming language.

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Random Rob Pike quote

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The Unix room still exists, and it may be the greatest cultural reason for the success of Unix as a technology.

Rob Pike (2004)

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Rob Pike (2004)

Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.

Rob Pike (2004)

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

Rob Pike (1987)

Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods. I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals.

Rob Pike (2012)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rob Pike (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.