Quotes About Abstraction

Sempre se orgulhara de ter vivido intensamente; mas essa expressão "viver intensamente" era uma pura abstração; procurando o conteúdo concreto dessa "intensidade", não descobriu senão um deserto onde vagava o vento

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 am simply not there.

Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance — although not nearly as often as many developers believe — but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.

But the brain does much more than just recollect it inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions. The simplest thought like the concept of the number one has an elaborate logical underpinning. The brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world.

Sooner or later all things are numbers, yes?

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

Bugs were the backdrop of the code writer's life. A comma in the wrong place. An "if" where there should be a "then." An erroneous call from one piece of the program to another. Each could instantly cause a seizure, the collapse of a finely wrought abstraction into a puddle of ones and zeroes. Only human, software was born to fail. If not catastrophically, then aesthetically. Every software captain knew this.

One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. ... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

Matemati?in çok küçük bölümü pratik yarar sa?lar; o küçük bölüm de oldukça s?k?c?d?r.

One of the beautiful things about mathematical physics is that equations contain stories.

There will be times when good object-oriented design techniques are at odds with real-world requirements; it may be necessary in these cases to compromise the rules of good design for the sake of performance or for the sake of backward compatibility with legacy code. Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance—although not nearly as often as many developers believe—but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.

A mathematician once told me that there are really only four numbers in the world: one, two, three, and many.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

They exist in some Platonic realm, along with abstract concepts like truth and justice.

Circles are the simplest curves in geometry. Yet, surprisingly, measuring them—quantifying their properties with numbers—transcends geometry.

Calculus, like other forms of mathematics, is much more than a language; it's also an incredibly powerful system of reasoning.

If real numbers are not real, why do mathematicians love them so much?

Cubism Meets Calculus

In mathematical modeling, as in all of science, we always have to make choices about what to stress and what to ignore. The art of abstraction lies in knowing what is essential and what is minutia, what is signal and what is noise, what is trend and what is wiggle. It's an art because such choices always involve an element of danger; they come close to wishful thinking and intellectual dishonesty.

In a famous article,8 the physicist Eugene Wigner has written of "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.