“At the core,” means,” is an implementation and capability is an abstraction.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Intellectualization complicates truth as it abstracts from what is.” — Omar Delawar Copy Share Image
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music. — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“the value of a game is in abstraction. Many Nirai go in for simulationist approaches, a tendency you share, but sometimes you… — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image