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Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
— Douglas Hofstadter
All meaning comes from analogies.
— Douglas Hofstadter
Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
I wish my wish would not be granted!
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
A mirror mirroring a mirror
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
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
[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
There are those who will immediately be drawn to the idea of pattern-seeking, and
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level
— Douglas Hofstadter
Irrationality is the square root of all evil
— Douglas Hofstadter
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
— Douglas Hofstadter
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
— Douglas Hofstadter
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
— Douglas Hofstadter
Reductionism is merciless.
— Douglas Hofstadter
I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done ...
— Douglas Hofstadter
No, no - I think about thinking
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
— Douglas Hofstadter
We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is ourself.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
I am the thought you are now thinking.
— Douglas Hofstadter
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.
— Douglas Hofstadter
Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.
— Douglas Hofstadter