"We don't want to focus on the trees……" — Douglas Hofstadter
"We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest."
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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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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 Expense Quotes
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one of 529 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the…
— Jane Austen
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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
— Scott Adams
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The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
— Josh Billings
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I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if…
— Russell Brand
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Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big…
— Bill Bryson
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
— Madeleine Albright
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
— Edmund Burke
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
— Samuel Butler
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