Best Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
- No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth… Attitude
- It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more… Basic
- There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far… Common
- How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation… Alone
- Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku. Haiku
- It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks… Behind
- Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence… Agree
- In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. End
- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law Account
- I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly. Better
- The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction. Any
- This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance. Far
- What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased… Association
- We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest. Expense
- It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. Account