A Quote by Linus Torvalds

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds
Finnish - Businessman
Born: December 28, 1969

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 GNU or something like that.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Ram Dass

To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.

Ian Stewart

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Booker T. Washington

I'm inspired by Jackson Pollock; splashing layer upon layer, using different materials, experimenting with new methods to produce something fresh. I'd love to be able to create in this way!

Benee

Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by adding layer upon layer of navigation and features; it's much more difficult to create simple, graceful designs. Paring designs to essential elements while maintaining elegance and functionality requires courage and discipline.

Jakob Nielsen

Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.

Nat Friedman

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

Malcolm X

Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.

Otto Penzler

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

Morgan Parker

Where I grew up, we spent a lot of time outside. I moved to Paris when I was 19, and from then on, it was exactly the opposite. On the weekend, you go to the galleries, the museums, the movies. And I thought, "I'm not going to be like all of these friends I've had who are now at this certain stage in their lives, and they are all unhappy with themselves because they never get out in the fresh air or the sun, and they get so disconnected from their bodies that they have to just layer and layer and layer like onions. I am not getting old like that."

Tomas Maier

Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer.

Charlie Munger

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

Alberto Moravia

Touring Seoul is like an onion that you keep peeling away layer after layer.

Park Won-soon

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

Paul Gauguin

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

James Huneker

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