Contracts Quote by Nick Szabo

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

— Max Beckmann

A smart contract is a mechanism involving digital assets and two or more parties, where some or all of the parties put assets in,…

— Vitalik Buterin

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

— James Madison

“Using a method to change a property is another example of encapsulation whereby we can often improve the maintainability and extensibility of code by…

— Eric Freeman

A property is that which not at all Can be disjoined and severed from a thing Without a fatal dissolution: such, Weight to the…

— Lucretius

[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels…

— Ali Smith

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

— Claes Oldenburg

“Formal property’s contribution to mankind is not the protection of ownership; squatters, housing organizations, mafias, and even primitive tribes manage to protect their assets…

— Hernando de Soto

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

— Max Stirner

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

— Paul Dirac

“methods in objects are properties too. They just happen to have a function assigned to them.”

— Eric Freeman

“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.”

— Robert A. Heinlein