Rob Pike

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Programming is the art of telling another human what one wants the computer to do.

The hardest part of software is what the users don't see.

Elegance is efficiency.

In the end, the secret to software is not in the code, but in the mind of the programmer.

Bugs lurk in corners and find them there.

The measure of good software is not how much code it has, but how little.

Collaboration is the soul of open source.

Time spent debugging is time not spent coding.

The best interfaces are almost invisible.

Innovation thrives on constraints.

Code is poetry.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Reliability is the enemy of regret.

In programming, as in life, the devil is in the details.

Great software is written by teams, not hermits.

The joy of programming is in the elegance of the solution.

Avoid premature optimization; it is the root of all evil.

The future belongs to those who code simply.