Rob Pike Quotes

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

I am a programmer.

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

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee- A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy-

Dominion must naturally follow Property.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system had to conform. Instead, I had to accept that I was only the vehicle for the system expressing its own desire for simplicity. My vision could shape initial direction, and my attention to the desires of the code could affect how quickly and how well the system found its desired shape, but the system is riding me much more than I am riding the system.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world