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Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!

Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.

Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: I wish my wish would not be granted!

I wish my wish would not be granted!

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: A mirror mirroring a mirror

A mirror mirroring a mirror

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.

A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: [...] provability is a weaker notion than truth

[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly.

I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly.

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is ourself.

We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is ourself.

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: No, no - I think about thinking

No, no - I think about thinking

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress

I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress

Douglas R. Hofstadter quotes: There are those who will immediately be drawn to the idea of pattern-seeking, and

There are those who will immediately be drawn to the idea of pattern-seeking, and