Rob Pike Quotes

I used to listen to the soundtrack for the movie 'Tank Girl' all the time. It was really good.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

What I've found is that a lot of people in the media industry tend to use Macs because they're so good for graphics and music.

Pardon me if this all sounds corny, but when you put on a record, I'd like it to be an escape from everything you do.

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.

If your home is anything like mine, it contains several rarely explored crannies stashed full of archaic chargers, defunct cables, and freshly antiquated gizmos whose sole useful function in 2011 is to make 2005 feel like 1926, simply by looking big and dull and impossibly lumpen.

I used to listen to Jay Z a lot.

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.