"Meaning lies as much in the mind of……" — Douglas Hofstadter
"Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku."
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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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More Haiku Quotes
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one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness,…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets…
— Aberjhani
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I seldom feel trapped by my world. Setting up rules and restrictions is part of the process. It gives your…
— Richard Kadrey
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Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku…
— James Turrell
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A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
— Chip Kidd
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Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
— Santoka Taneda
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Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The…
— Santoka Taneda
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A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest;…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be…
— Thom Mayne
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