Programming Quote by John V. Guttag

“Abstraction is useful in software because it allows the programmer to: • hide irrelevant detail, and concentrate on essentials. • present a “black box”…

— Peter van der Linden

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

“An abstraction is not a module, or an interface, class, or method; it is a structure, pure and simple-an idea reduced to its essential…

— Daniel Jackson

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers…

— Robert W. Floyd

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a…

— Tom G. Palmer

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the…

— Tony Hoare

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

— Edsger Dijkstra