Quote by Leonard Richardson

“The things you’re accustomed to are dangerous. In applications intended for use within an organization, a design based on API calls works well and…

— Leonard Richardson

Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for their business.

— Diane Greene

“thinking of API design as resource design is a very effective way to avoid thinking about hypermedia.”

— Leonard Richardson

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

— Charles Petzold

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software…

— Bill Gates

“What most users do not realize is that to be a RESTful architecture the web service must satisfy formal constraints. In particular, the application…

— Julia Elman

Today, Web services is really about developing for the server. What it means to developers is any set of systems services that you make…

— John Fowler

If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.

— Brendan Eich

“developers should be able to understand and update the code of a service without knowing anything about the internals of its peer services. Services”

— Gene Kim

“I was impressed by the scene in Apollo 13 where the astronauts request confirmation of their calculations and several people at Mission Control dive…

— Matt Roberts

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

— Winston Damarillo