"Reductionism is merciless." — Douglas Hofstadter

"Reductionism is merciless."

— Douglas Hofstadter

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40 Quotes by Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious…
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be…
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a…
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble…
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented…
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of…
Irrationality is the square root of all evil
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find…
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit…
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.
It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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