Analogies Quote by Douglas Hofstadter Download Open image “. . . all meaning comes from analogies.” — Douglas Hofstadter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analogies Purpose
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions,… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task which it is performing, and survey what it has… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is. — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity. — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I always use the analogy that when you go to a jeans store and put on a new pair of jeans, it's a pair… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll have a… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or she stole,… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too… — Manny Laureano Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
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