Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
Quotes to Explore
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
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Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.
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I started doing home brew stuff with my dad when I was younger.
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Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.
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To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.'
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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 it is.
