Ideas Quote by Linus Torvalds

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Stephen Dunn

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

— Gustave Flaubert

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

— Joel Spolsky

“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.”

— David Shenk

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

— Dennis Prager

“The abstract and the concrete side of operations are opposites, but you can't have one without the other, if, that is, you want get…

— David Keirsey

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

— Simon Mawer

With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.

— Tom Duff

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

— Publilius Syrus