Quote by Leonard Richardson

“the “API call” metaphor inevitably exposes the server’s implementation details to the clients. This introduces coupling between server code and client code.”

— Leonard Richardson

“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

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

— Kent Beck

“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

If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the Internet.

— Andy Jassy

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

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of…

— Peter Zumthor

“The key to using abstraction effectively in programming is finding a notion of relevance that is appropriate for both the builder of an abstraction…

— John V. Guttag

“Infrastructure as Code.” If you’re going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.”

— Mike Loukides

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use -…

— Jeff Atwood

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

— Miguel de Icaza