I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Essentially, I look for what is interesting to me, out there in the three-dimensional world, and translate or interpret so that it… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
“Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental than differences. Less fundamental, but no less… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“Dialectics, Engestrom states, reverses the direction of conventional logic: instead of seeing 'concrete' phenomena as something sensually palpable and 'abstraction' as a… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“For the Angelic Doctor, the reason of conceptual knowledge is just the contrary! It is not his distance from the animal that… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade,… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied.… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
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