Quotes About Abstraction

A document shouldn't try to do what the code already does well.

A model is a simplification. It is an interpretation of reality that abstracts the aspects relevant to solving the problem at hand and ignores extraneous detail.

Success comes in an emerging set of abstract concepts that make sense of all the detail

This tight coupling of the application to the specifics of the implementation strips away most of the benefits of abstraction in the domain layer and makes continuing changes ever more expensive.

Take what varies and "encapsulate" it so it won't affect the rest of your code.

This reductionist vision is reflected in the evolution of his work. Perhaps Mondrian also implicitly realized that by excluding certain angles and focusing only on others he might pique the beholder's curiosity and imagination about the omissions.

Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.

The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory of thought without image.

philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts" .

Their math lacks integers!" "As far as we can tell," Jennifer added. "They don't use whole numbers at all. Only 'smears,' they call them.

who could visualize four-dimensional surfaces in a non-Euclidean geometry

I never stopped writing. It was what I did, no matter where I was or how my circumstances changed. One of the reasons I remember those early Bombay months so well is that, whenever I was alone, I wrote about those new friends and the conversations we shared. And writing was one of the things that saved me: the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.

Writing was one of the things that saved me: the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.

the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.

At best, a 100-day measurement of a new presidency is a meaningless abstraction. At worst, it's an invite to cheap politicking at the expense of the common good.

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.

As impressive as matrix mechanics was, it suffered from a severe marketing flaw. The mathematical formalism was highly abstract and difficult to understand. Einstein's reaction to the theory was typical: A veritable sorcerer's calculation. This is sufficiently ingenious and protected by its great complexity to be immune to any proof of its falsity. This from the guy who had proposed describing space-time in terms of non-Euclidian geometry.

The greatest gifts given to man are his ability to think in terms of abstraction and his ability of transcendence. From these he derives his imaginative power. These are part of his major distinction from the lower animals. Although we need our moments of hearts and flowers, we need also to see the other side of the universal fence.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts.

She knew that she could not move until he permitted her to. She saw his mouth and the silent contempt in the shape of his mouth; the planes of his gaunt, hollow cheeks; the cold, pure brilliance of the eyes that had no trace of pity. She knew it was the most beautiful face she would ever see, because it was the abstraction of strength made visible.