What did Rob Pike mean by: Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building. - Rob Pike Computer scientist Copy
+ Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rob Pike, Return, 0 - Rob Pike Computer scientist
+ Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rob Pike, Language, Programming, 0 - Rob Pike Computer scientist
+ Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization. Feraz Zeid, August 27, 2023December 24, 2023, Rob Pike, Architecture, 0 - Rob Pike Computer scientist
+ There’s nothing in computing that can’t be broken by another level of indirection. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rob Pike, Broken, Levels, Programming, 0 - Rob Pike Computer scientist
+ When there is no type hierarchy you don’t have to manage the type hierarchy. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rob Pike, Hierarchy, Programming, 0 - Rob Pike Computer scientist
+ Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it’s very useful. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rob Pike, Exciting, Language, Programming, 0 - Rob Pike Computer scientist
+ Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rob Pike, Algorithms, Fancy, Learn, 0 - Rob Pike Computer scientist
+ There’s no such thing as a simple cache bug. Feraz Zeid, June 28, 2023December 12, 2023, Rob Pike, Bugs, Simple, 0 - Rob Pike Computer scientist
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world. - Mary McLeod Bethune Educator · USA
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA