Quotes About Abstraction

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers.

Insisting that architecture maintain such a profound lack of character without even the hint of any feeling is not a lack of position or an accidental design flaw but rather a commitment to a once progressive but now painfully outmoded position struggling to maintain its faded hegemony. What was once radical abstraction in pursuit of universality and utopia is today just banal accommodation in pursuit of free corporate expansion.

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.

Our use of knowledge progresses through successively higher levels of abstraction as we perfect civilization and draw nearer to the mentality of God

The average buyer of an OS is not really paying for, and is not especially interested in, the low-level code that allocates memory or writes bytes onto the disk. What we're really buying is a system of metaphors. And--much more important--what we're buying into is the underlying assumption that metaphors are a good way to deal with the world.

Condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Nah, mathematicians stay away from actual, specific numbers as much as possible. We like to talk about numbers without actually exposing ourselves to them—that's what computers are for.

Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?

consider a spherical cow.

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Honestly, when I'm out there, I really don't even think about them as guys with names. I look at them as numbers.

My shows are not narratives.

At the level of the microcode, physical and abstract meet. The

Todo concepto filosófico, tomado en su sentido más genérico, explica cualquier cosa.

it's precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that seems real when it's merely an abstraction, namely that brain introduced or employed to great effect those methods of distortion, that dislocation

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

War. It was an abstraction to her. She couldn't conceptualize its reality, not even the edges of its reality, but the way Akiva had been—dead-eyed—and the way he looked at her now, it made her feel as if he was coming back from the dead for her, and that seemed a tremendous thing, and an intimate one. The next time their eyes met, she had to look away.

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.