Api Quotes & Sayings

Clean code can be read, and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. It has unit and acceptance tests. It has meaningful names. It provides one way rather than many
ways for doing one thing. It has minimal dependencies, which are explicitly defined, and provides a clear and minimal API. Code should be
literate since depending on the language, not all necessary information can be expressed clearly in code alone.

-Dave Thomas, founder
of OTI, godfather of the
Eclipse strategy — Robert C. Martin

I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar. — Madhur Mittal

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

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds? — Michael Crichton

thinking of API design as resource design is a very effective way to avoid thinking about hypermedia. — Leonard Richardson

Ask anyone who's been around the NSBlock a few times: Key-Value Observing has the worst API in all of Cocoa. — Mattt Thompson

I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people. — Yishan Wong

Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God. — Ron Brackin

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable. — James Gosling

When the iPhone app is built, the Xamarin C# compiler generates C# Intermediate Language (IL) as usual, but it then makes use of the Apple compiler on the Mac to generate native iPhone machine code just like the Objective-C compiler. The calls from the app to the iPhone APIs are the same as though the application were written in Objective-C. For the Android app, the Xamarin C# compiler generates IL, which runs on a version of Mono on the device alongside the Java engine, but the API calls from the app are pretty — Charles Petzold

Inspiration is not a thing, its every thing, open your eyes and inspiration is everywhere. — L.L. Caulton

Throw away the rule book and create your own. — Sandra Bellamy

It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved. — J.S.B. Morse

Bombas Tipo OH1 y OH2" (ANSI/API Std. 610. Eleventh Edition- September 2010. ISO 13709:2009 (Identical). Centrifugal pumps for petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries). — Ivan Mejia

We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.
God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge. — Zarina Bibi

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 is easy to develop. The API call metaphor assumes away the network boundary and lets a client invoke a method on a remote computer just like it would call the API of a local code library. — Leonard Richardson

I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly. — Shawn Fanning

For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful. — George Reese

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. — J. C. Snead

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

it seems we've got a mental block when it comes to hypermedia in web APIs. This is a big problem, because hypermedia is the feature that makes a web API capable of handling changes gracefully. — Leonard Richardson

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the "sacredness of human life" remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains. — Leon Trotsky

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. — Simon S. Tam

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less. — John Elder Robison