a higher level of abstraction can make problems more tractable I think of an abstraction of something that makes things simpler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

a higher level of abstraction can make problems more tractable I think of an abstraction of something that makes things simpler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_science%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_scienc... I understood Alan Kay to be saying that a lot of abstractions are actually making things too simple. I would understand the point to mean "a lower level of abstraction can make the big picture more tractable".