Criticism Focus Quotes by Douglas R. Hofstadter

“I wish my wish would not be granted!”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“It is extremely interesting, then, to think about the meaning of the word ‘form’ as it applies to constructions of arbitrarily complex shapes. For…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“We have a very hard time “seeing” our cognitive activity because it is the medium in which we swim. The attempt to put our…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“What does it matter if two brains are isomorphic, or quasi-isomorphic, or not isomorphic at all? The answer is that we have an intuitive…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“A mirror mirroring a mirror”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 make 1” (for lovers), or “1…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“I can't help but recall, at this point, a horribly elitist but very droll remark by one of my favorite writers, the American "critic…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's, twelve i's, one j,…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“No, no - I think about thinking”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter