Conceptual Quotes

156 Conceptual quotes by 123 unique authors

The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but… — Donald A. Norman
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle… — Alan Greenspan
The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not… — George Saunders
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions… — Stephen Jay Gould
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional… — Shunryu Suzuki
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas — Kim Gordon
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our… — Murray Bookchin
I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new… — Boz Scaggs
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a… — Jenny Saville
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion. — Donald Davidson
We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has… — John Lennon
To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided. — Longchenpa
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of… — Fred Brooks
Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders.… — Steven Johnson
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect… — Mary Midgley
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as… — Percy Williams Bridgman
What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person… — Donald A. Norman
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this… — Medard Boss
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater… — Alex Grey
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor. — Dan Graham
By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge… — Unknown Author
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are… — Steve Albini
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.… — Ayn Rand
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra

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