"No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on……" — Douglas Hofstadter
"No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is."
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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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The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.
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It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up…
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More Coding Quotes
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When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best…
— Mitchel Resnick
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...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes.…
— Unknown Author
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Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.
— Unknown Author
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Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and…
— Jesse James Garrett
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Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it,…
— Caterina Fake
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The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to…
— Rick Perry
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For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This…
— Unknown Author
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The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it.…
— John Carmack
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Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.
— Ali Partovi
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After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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