Abstraction Quote by Robert W. Floyd

“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

Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

“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

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

— Stephen Dunn

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

“There are even a lot of formal problem-solving methods that actively encourage expanding possibilities when problem-solving. As I’ve said before, expansive thinking is wonderful…

— Nat Greene

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

— Booker T. Washington

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

— Richard Branson

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

“If, as I believe, the conceptual structures we construct today are too complicated to be accurately specified in advance, and too complex to be…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep yourself alive…

— Robert Hass

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare