Quote by Daniel Jackson

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

— Edsger Dijkstra

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a…

— Tom G. Palmer

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

— Derek R. Audette

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”

— Robert C. Martin

“Abstraction is useful in software because it allows the programmer to: • hide irrelevant detail, and concentrate on essentials. • present a “black box”…

— Peter van der Linden

“The key to using abstraction effectively in programming is finding a notion of relevance that is appropriate for both the builder of an abstraction…

— John V. Guttag

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

— Eric Maisel

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

— Alexander Stepanov