Douglas Hofstadter Quotes

You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

Douglas Hofstadter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SoulPeopleBrainYouCopyPerson

The greatest thing I can remember in my whole career was the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey clowns asking me to appear with them at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1965.

Jerry Lewis

MeRememberCareerI CanLos Angeles

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Robert South

ManMeasure Of A ManMeasureMustHe

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

Stephanie Szostak

ActingDramaClassNeverFranceHad

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

Tony Bennett

NatureLearnYouMatterTopStudy

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

BeautyHappyBe HappyYouBornSay

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Martin Scorsese

MoneySupportRestThinkWishDays

Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.

Mike McCready

LifeMy LifeWorkingOffBeenStuff

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

Jay Kay

MyselfYouCareerNowLuckyRadio

I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

Jason Calacanis

FindNiceWatchingBoxEmailSocial

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

Jonathan Dimbleby

LiveTruthWorldTruth IsVirtue

Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

Douglas Rushkoff

PeopleBackTrafficEmergencyAir

I walk four miles three or four times a week.

Cheryl Ladd

WalkWeekThreeMilesFourTimes

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