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Douglas Hofstadter Quotes

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

Douglas Hofstadter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 15, 1945

Topics

Law You Always Expect Take Even

I love to be outdoors, so I like to hike, bike and go to the beach.

Jillian Rose Reed

Love Beach Bike Outdoors Go Like

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

Art World Back Say Museums Closing

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

Daughter Children Support Me Writing

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Imagination I Am Monk Monastery Am

I start a picture and I finish it.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Start Picture Finish

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

John Philip Sousa

Beauty Lie Remember You Pen Always

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

Live World Unknown Outside Out Far

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

School Me Lunch World Free Would

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

Border Fence Accomplish Dangerous

You have to understand, everyone's body was built to do something. I was built to do something, and that's how I was built. I think the world is realizing we were promoting one body type, and there have always been many.

Michelle Carter

World Think You Body Understand

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

Community Struggle Training Go Large

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

Good Watches Late Know Need Always

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