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Some Quotes by Douglas Hofstadter
- The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary…
- The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we…
- No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
- It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly…
- Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special…
- For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes…
- 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…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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