Internals Quotes

If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code. (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
Gambas does not try to be compatible with Visual Basic, and will never be. I'm convinced that its syntax and internals are far better than the one's of its proprietary cousin. View quote
Benoît Minisini
Word and Excel and PowerPoint and other Microsoft programs have intimate - one might say promiscuous - knowledge of each others' internals. In Unix, one tries to design programs to operate not specifically with each other, but with programs as yet unthought of. View quote
Doug McIlroy
My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries. View quote
Guido van Rossum