Rob Pike Quotes

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industries—it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.