"This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it…" — 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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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we…
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The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world…
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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most…
— Henry Fielding
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If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own…
— Elbert Hubbard
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.
— Mark Thomas
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
— Thomas a Kempis
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad…
— Antisthenes
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the…
— Dalai Lama
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend…
— Michael Robotham
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