"The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving……" — Douglas Hofstadter
"The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started."
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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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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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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 Downwards Quotes
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Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards...…
— Sun Tzu
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One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is…
— Charles Dickens
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The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn…
— Hermann Hesse
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The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards…
— Chauncey Wright
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Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency…
— Mencius
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It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and…
— Mencius
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I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.
— Tom Glazer
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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards…
— Gary Hamel
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is…
— John Locke
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