If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular… — William James Copy Share Image
My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both… — Jack Donovan 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
... 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
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
[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
Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the… — Henry Miller 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 the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched… We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most… — Tom Coughlin Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction. — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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 true to say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions . It's his own experience…” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/catherine-camus-12238_abstraction_albert-camus-started-thinking-through-se_1084847.jpg)
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