Answers Quote by Andrew Plotkin

“We will start by sketching the recursive algorithm and then add details to get to a full description of the algorithm. Footnote : Translation:…

— Sariel Har-Peled

“You can do anything with stacks and iteration that you can do with recursion.”

— Steve McConnell

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

— Douglas Hofstadter

“Hofstadter’s law tells us: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

— Christopher Chabris

If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Analysing complexity Analysis of complex systems almost always turns on finding recurring patterns in the system’s ever-changing configurations. The game of chess provides a…

— John H. Holland

“It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.”

— Grant Morrison

“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”

— Salman Rushdie

“By any objective standard, the theory of computational complexity ranks as one of the greatest intellectual achievements of humankind -- along with fire, the…

— Scott Aaronson

“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up…

— Terry Pratchett

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

— Gottlob Frege

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport