Abstraction Quote by Nat Friedman

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to…

— Nat Friedman

I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. "Okay, this is…

— Brian Eno

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

— Ann Reinking

“Radically better software robustness and productivity are to be had only by moving up a level, and making programs by the composition of modules,…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

I don't have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act as abstracted…

— Jon Hopkins

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures…

— Bill Gates

“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

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I'm a pushover for cleaning items that come in packages of three or more.

— Tara Stiles

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools…

— Guido van Rossum

“This really does attack essence. Because the build-on-package phenomenon does not today affect the average MIS programmer, it is not yet very visible to…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very…

— Guido van Rossum