"His hair is a flat-top; his mouth frowns in near grimace. He strides to my seat, looks down and says in a Texas drawl, 'and the key is simply this: Abstraction

"His hair is a flat-top; his mouth frowns in near grimace. He strides to my seat, looks down and says in a Texas drawl, 'and the key is simply this: Abstractions. New and better abstractions. With them we can solve all our programming problems.'" — Richard P. Gabriel, “Patterns of Software”