Famous quotes containing the words abstract and/or data:
“All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“This city is neither a jungle nor the moon.... In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)