Jeremy Podeswa

I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.

Canadian Director

Lenny Abrahamson

That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

Irish Director

Mike Figgis

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

English Director

Peter Carey

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Australian Novelist

James Merrill

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

American Poet

Peter Morgan

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

British Writer

Charles C. Mann

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

American Journalist

Maria Semple

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

American Novelist

Jasper Johns

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

American Artist

William Scranton

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

American Politician

Schematic is often used in technical or engineering settings to describe detailed diagrams.

Technical Uses

Schematics simplify complex objects or systems into basic shapes and lines for easier understanding.

Visual Simplicity

Unlike artistic drawings, schematics focus on function and information rather than aesthetics.

Not Artistic

Schematic can describe thinking that reduces complex ideas to simpler, general forms.

Conceptual Thinking

Be cautious that a schematic description doesn’t miss critical nuances of a topic.

Avoid Misinterpretation

 a chip generating tissues of predictable density and behaviors the second piece and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery and this is a schematic of a bioreactor we're developing in our lab to help engineer tissues in a more modular scalable way going forward

Could tissue engineering...

 on the molecules on the oil. One of the things that we also need to do, is we need to try to not kind of fool ourselves into thinking that you can have a green world, before you reduce the amount of oil that we use. We need to focus on reducing the oil. What you see in this top drawing is a schematic

Lisa Margonelli: The...

 on a chip. Generating tissues of predictable density and behavior is the second piece, and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery. And this is a schematic of a bioreactor we're developing in our lab to help engineer tissues in a more modular, scalable way.

Nina Tandon: Could...

 to give you that little slideshow. Now, what hard problem is being solved here? And it's -- in the most schematic possible view, it's a coordination problem, right? There are a large number of people on the Internet, a very small fraction of them have photos of the Mermaid Parade.

Clay Shirky: Institutions...

 Well, of course, I went to the theater to see the play. What does the loss of 20 dollars along the way have to do? Now, just in case you're not getting it, here's a schematic of what happened, OK? Along the way, you lost something. In both cases, it was a piece of paper.

Why we make bad...

 help us make meaning in very different ways. So what can we learn about this? How can we apply this insight? Well, again, the schematic view is that the eye visually interrogates what we look at. The brain processes this in parallel, the figments of information

3 ways the brain creates...

 principles of schematic diagram design and changed the way public transport maps are designed forever now the very key to the success of this map is in the omission of important less important information and in the extreme

Making sense of maps -...

 In this case, you can have Hedge list every step in the headers of both the rows and columns. Then he can go through the rows one at a time. On the schematic, what points to mix? Both shake and titrate.

The Factory PIPE Think Like...

 it also had to be low-cost, as I was designing it and paying for it myself. It also had to be mass-manufacturable, because I wanted it to be made anywhere, for anyone. Thus, I drafted up a schematic.

A teen scientist's...

 On that schematic picture, a sort of time-lapse picture, we're halfway. And it'll be another six billion before that happens, and any remaining life on Earth is vaporized.