Quotes About Abstraction

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

The Goldberg Variations is a good example of how symmetry is not just a physical property but pervades many abstract structures.

As with every abstraction, we need to tie the word to actualities to keep it from floating into the euphemistic ether where it can do as much harm as carbon.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Twentieth-century British mathematician G.H. Hardy also believed that the human function is to "discover or observe" mathematics rather than to invent it. In other words, the abstract landscape of mathematics was there, waiting for mathematical explorers to reveal it.

Es más fácil imaginar la muerte de una persona que la de cien o mil...Multiplicado, el sufrimiento se vuelve abstracto. No es fácil conmoverse por cosas abstractas.

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

extremely difficult for the average person to visualize a space of more than three dimensions, since that is the only spatial geometry with which we have had any personal experience.

polymorphism means that the meaning of an operation depends on the object being operated on.

With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Lots of shifting diagrams and numbers that might as well have been abstract art as far as I was concerned.

If oy have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

A heuristic we follow is that whenever we feel the need to comment something, we write a method instead.

Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places.

in interaction diagrams], comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

If you have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.