Abstraction Quote by Joel Spolsky Download Open image “All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.” — Joel Spolsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Degrees
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — Gustave Flaubert 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 can be… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's nothing like necessity of needing to do something to cause you to come up with abstractions that help you break through the forms. — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
“If you can’t understand the spec for a new technology, don’t worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won’t be that… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
“In any case, even if a usability test resolves a dispute, it doesn't do it in any kind of a statistically valid way. Unless you test thousands of people from all walks of life under all kinds of conditions, something that not even Microsoft can afford to do, you are not actually getting statistically meaningful results. Remember, the real strength… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share
“The confidence you get from knowing about every crash, anywhere in the world, is crucial to delivering a high-quality product that needs to be used in the wild. In the consumer software business, you can't rely on your customers to tell you about crashes—many of them may not be technical enough, and most of them won't bother to take time… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share
“Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules. I think this kind of motivation is brain-dead. When I'm behind schedule, I feel doomed and depressed and unmotivated. When I'm working ahead of schedule, I'm cheerful and productive. The schedule is not the place to play psychological… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share
Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same… — Joel Spolsky 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
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
