Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
Solomon: Your entry in Wikipedia says that your work has inspired many students to begin careers in computing and artificial intelligence.Hofstadter: I have no interest in computers. The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind of depresses me.Solomon: So fix it.Hofstadter: The next day someone will fix it back.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body.
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Reading has always been the great love of my life.
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I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
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Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century, and she overlooked my alma mater because we started - I say we - in 1635. And among the people who went there - and they're on - the walls in the auditorium, the names are: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, except he split when he was 10 years old to go to work.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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Solomon: Your entry in Wikipedia says that your work has inspired many students to begin careers in computing and artificial intelligence.Hofstadter: I have no interest in computers. The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind of depresses me.Solomon: So fix it.Hofstadter: The next day someone will fix it back.
