Define Quote by Noga Alon

“In the Python way of thinking, explicit is better than implicit, and simple is better than complex.1”

— Mark Lutz

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

— Ryan Holiday

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

— Clay Shirky

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the possibility of…

— Robert W. Floyd

“Obviousism—I would give you a definition, but the definition would only be an example of the word.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”

— Robert C. Martin

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

— Edward Albee

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

— Ferdinand Alexander Porsche