Quote by Frederick P. Brooks Jr

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from…

— Edward Felten

“The quick and dirty way is to write down a one-line description, in the simplest terms possible, of what I’m creating, along with a…

— Giles Colborne

“Can we learn a technique to make our own descriptions of people more incisive and complete?”

— Samuel H. Barondes

I get it, I mean, it's easy to categorize somebody. I summarize things quickly, too.

— Rick Owens

“Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.”

— Charles Wheelan

Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

— Douglas McIlroy

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

— Bertrand Russell

“What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity…

— Edward R. Tufte

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

“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot…

— Stephen King

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

— Jack Schwartz

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

— William James