Hierarchy Quote by Douglas Hofstadter Download Open image “Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level” — Douglas Hofstadter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hierarchy Levels Lying Tangled
“Hierarchy is a toxic inheritance from previous eras that we keep reproducing as a matter of our social reproduction, but that does not mean… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way. — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Daimonology has no hierarchy, but only the spell of universal anarchy.” — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to words to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity… — Clifford Grobstein 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
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way. — Jens Voigt Copy Share Image
The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called… — Malcolm Godwin Copy Share Image
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... ” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
“Daimonology has no hierarchy, but only the spell of universal anarchy.” — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
