Famous quotes containing the words abstraction and/or hierarchy:
“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (19151980)
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
—Laurence J. Peter (19191990)
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