Abstraction Quote by Linus Torvalds

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast…

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

— Linus Torvalds

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

— Larry Wall

“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

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

— Graham McTavish

But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe…

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“The portable device is the future of digital media—at least in the short term—and there is nothing more portable than good audio content. It’s…

— Jonathan Kern

What we're really trying to do is have heterogeneous systems really become the foundation of our computing going forward. And that's the idea that…

— Lisa Su

Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity…

— Satya Nadella

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

— Douglas Crockford