Top 100 Rob Pike Quotes
#1. Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return
Rob Pike
#2. Work only can keep even kings respectable.
Albert Pike
#3. Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?"
"You may ask."
"How old are you?"
"It's none of your business
Christopher Pike
#4. What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.
Christopher Pike
#5. I glanced at Pike, but Pike was staring out the front door. Intimidating the neighborhood. I said, Maybe he mentioned a buddy who worked at a Shell Station or an ex-con he would have drinks with.
Robert Crais
#6. You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
Zebulon Pike
#7. I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.
Rosamund Pike
#8. It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.
Christopher Pike
#9. A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .
Albert Pike
#10. Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.
Rob Pike
#11. A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike
#12. Pike County, which now has Pittsfield as its seat, was once so large that it included Chicago, which was then a tiny settlement on Lake Michigan.
Troy Taylor
#13. Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike
#14. He was a man, he always performed his promises.
Zebulon Pike
#15. If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike
#16. If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
Albert Pike
#18. If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.
Aprilynne Pike
#19. There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.
Christopher Pike
#20. Over the years, that investors continued to fund Pike's grandiose predictions, the price of coal was high enough to send men day after day into a flawed & dangerous place. Now that they are dead the price is not high enough to get them out
Rebecca Macfie
#21. Anyone can pluck a flower ... true strength is knowing how to give it life.
Aprilynne Pike
#22. This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.
Christopher Pike
#23. The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.
Albert Pike
#24. All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
Albert Pike
#25. Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
Zebulon Pike
#26. Holy Hecate, petals, branches, and breath," Tamani swore, his face lined with concern. "You can do that?
Aprilynne Pike
#27. Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is
Rob Pike
#28. One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.
Christopher Pike
#29. Thank you for the exquisite comfort of your kitchen floor.
Aprilynne Pike
#30. I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
Rosamund Pike
#31. The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Kenneth L. Pike
#32. Still, there are many things we can toss at them that don't require magic at all. Acid. Hot oil. Bookshelves.
Aprilynne Pike
#33. I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Kenneth L. Pike
#34. Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
Rob Pike
#35. Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.
Rob Pike
#36. I know I've got loads that has never been tapped.
Rosamund Pike
#37. I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.
Christopher Pike
#38. Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.
Albert Pike
#39. One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
Albert Pike
#40. The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.
Rosamund Pike
#41. I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better.
Rosamund Pike
#42. When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.
Rob Pike
#43. Sometimes," he said, bringing a figertip to her bottom lip, "A kiss is simply a kiss.
Aprilynne Pike
#44. I don't believe in monsters."
"Well, Red, I think you might want to start." Pike turned and looked him in the eye. "What do you think those green things were? And what do you think is trying to smash its way in here? A pony?
Jack Keely
#45. It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.
Rosamund Pike
#46. I miss the days of burning your kind at the stake. For generations we have settled for financial ruin and ostracization of your whorish ancestors - but know this, I will personally gut you and put your head on a pike in my parlor.
Heather McVea
#47. I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.
Rosamund Pike
#49. When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.
Christopher Pike
#50. Benson just stares at me. "Could you do anything ... I don't know, supernatural when you were little?"
"Yeah, I made the glass on a snake's cage disappear right before my acceptance letter from Hogwarts arrived."
Benson just raises an eyebrow at me.
Aprilynne Pike
#51. I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
Albert Pike
#52. When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.
Christopher Pike
#53. The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
Kenneth L. Pike
#54. I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.
Rosamund Pike
#55. Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Kenneth L. Pike
#56. Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.
Christopher Pike
#57. In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.
Rosamund Pike
#59. There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
Kenneth L. Pike
#60. He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy, sexy chaos.
Aprilynne Pike
#61. Weaving in and out of traffic, she tooted the horn, mounted the footpath when needed and drove as fast as her Fiat would allow.
Toni Pike
#62. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
Rosamund Pike
#63. I am Isis, Queen of this country. I was instructed by Mercury. No one can destroy the laws which I have established. I am the eldest daughter of Saturn, most ancient of the Gods.
Albert Pike
#64. Masonry is not a religion.
He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
Albert Pike
#65. Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
Albert Pike
#66. Human locks? Please," Tamani said. "May as well leave the door open.
Aprilynne Pike
#67. Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.
Rob Pike
#68. Paranormalcy seduced me. The two sexy paranormals who vie for Evie's affections each had their own victory; one won Evie's heart and the other won mine.
Aprilynne Pike
#69. Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research."
The words were out of Laurel's mouth before she realized how bad they sounded.
"I mean he's helping me.
Aprilynne Pike
#70. When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.
Rosamund Pike
#71. The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.
Will Cuppy
#72. As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?
Rosamund Pike
#73. Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
Christopher Pike
#74. Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Albert Pike
#75. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike
#77. It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
Albert Pike
#78. John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
Christopher Pike
#79. I would leave everything and join the World Tree tomorrow if she died, " Tamani said.
"I know, " Shar whispered through the darkness.
Aprilynne Pike
#80. I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.
Rosamund Pike
#81. No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.
Christopher Pike
#82. There's only one sun," Alison said with feeling. "It's always the same, but it's always the best. Do you know what I mean?
Christopher Pike
#85. The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
Albert Pike
#86. Talk about doomed love. He's gay, she's dead, stay tuned.
Aprilynne Pike
#87. Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.
Rob Pike
#88. Climate change has always been sort of my main focus. I think also with [what happened in Fukushima, Japan] there's still a lot to think about in terms of what's coming down the pike into the world's oceans, too.
Rufus Wainwright
#89. I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't ... and who lives, and who dies.
Christopher Pike
#90. Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot.
Erika Johansen
#91. There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.
Rob Pike
#92. The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.
Sheridan Hay
#93. If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike
#94. Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.
Christopher Pike
#95. Laurel stared at him, his tense sholders, his dominating posture. He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into chaos.
Sexy, sexy chaos
At least he had his shirt on this time.
Aprilynne Pike
#97. You ready for this?" Shar asked.
"Yeah," Tamani said, a grin spreading across his face, "Oh, yeah.
Aprilynne Pike
#98. I argued that she wasn't even alive when My Little Pony originally aired, but she retorted that she wasn't alive now, either, and there's just no good comeback to that.
Aprilynne Pike
#99. As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.
Aprilynne Pike
#100. But stop thinking what you think I'm thinking because you're wrong. Pike's just pissed I won't go play in his sandbox. Well, my sandbox is full. No room for more than one and he's already here. -Grace from Tainted (Fey Court Trilogy) Book 2 Release July 2012
Cyndi Goodgame
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