Abstraction Quote by John Dewey

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

— Edmund Husserl

“It’s marked as an object,” Wu said. In computer terminology, an “object” was a block of code that could be moved around and used,…

— Michael Crichton

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

— Terence McKenna

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

— Karim Rashid

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

— Francis Galton

“Even the objects in a room are not, in some sense, the same objects to another animal. A dog looking around a room does…

— Alexandra Horowitz

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

— Georges Braque

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

— Alfred Korzybski

Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change…

— Alexander Stepanov