Quotes About Abstraction

What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he does not trespass: on the one hand actual life is always the material, and on the other hand an abstraction from actual life is a necessary condition to the creation of the work of art.

para definir y entender habría que estar fuera de lo definido y lo entendible.

pese a lo cual conservo algún sentido del humor y especialmente una notable capacidad de abstracción, es decir, que si no me gusta un tipo lo borro del mapa con sólo decidirlo

The truth is, almost every solid idea that comes from science is in some sense an abstraction rather than a 'real' thing.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws.' The self-deprecation of mass man carried to its symbolic limit. How does he see himself? Not merely as a crustacean. Not even as a crustacean, only the very abstraction of a crustacean: claws. And ragged, at that. In the next line we see-

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Guénon nous dit une fois que si nous pouvions rencontrer des hommes de l'âge d'or, nous serions frappés par le fait qu'ils parleraient toujours en images et non en langage abstrait. (De l'Esprit symboliste - Études Traditionnelles N°340, juin 1957)

Summarizing is when you take a story that is complicated and interesting, then stick it in a microwave until it shrivels up into a tiny piece of black crunchy tarlike stuff. A wise man once said, "Any story, no matter how good, will sound really, really dumb when you shorten it to a few sentences.

Wszystko kosztuje - odrzek? Ham - Ale czym s? pieni?dze? Fizyczn? interpretacj? abstrakcyjnej koncepcji wysi?ku.

there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

Many of the most frequent fallacies in economic reasoning come from the propensity, especially marked today, to think in terms of an abstraction—the collectivity, the "nation"—and to forget or ignore the individuals who make it up and give it meaning.

Aquellos dos hablaban de especie de jerga matemática superior. Nunca entraba en ella nada de carne y hueso: era extraña, fantasmal, espantosamente abstracta.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Composite Simpler Than the Sum of Its Parts The API of a composite object should not be more complicated than that of any of its components.

The goal is to minimize the amount of a program you have to think about at any one time. You might think of this as mental juggling—the more mental balls the program requires you to keep in the air at once, the more likely you'll drop one of the balls, leading to a design or coding error.

Reduce complexity. The single most important reason to create a routine is to reduce a program's complexity. Create a routine to hide information so that you won't need to think about it.

few people can understand more than three levels of nested ifs

I'm generalizing from one example, here, but everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Every abstract idea brings with it an immense economy of thought.