Rob Pike Quotes

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

At a simple level, good is that which helps people-evil is that which hurts people. At a higher level, good is that which is in harmony with divine purpose-evil is that which is out of harmony with divine purpose.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal.

You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two.