"For 13 to be unlucky would require there……" — Douglas Hofstadter
"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 certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean)."
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Douglas Hofstadter
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40 Quotes by Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter has 40 quotes on this site.
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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious…
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Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be…
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I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a…
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Reductionism is merciless.
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble…
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One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented…
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The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of…
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Irrationality is the square root of all evil
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In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
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The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find…
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No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit…
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The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.
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