Hywston, we've got a problem
People don't want data. They want answers. That's key.
- David Hand, Royal Statistical Society panel discussion Data Science and Statistics: different worlds? (2015)
APIs should be easy to use and hard to misuse.
It should be easy to do simple things; possible to do complex things; and impossible, or at least difficult, to do wrong things.
- Joshua Bloch, QCon New York A Brief, Opinionated History of the API (2018)