Douglas Hofstadter Quotes

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

Douglas Hofstadter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YourselfWorldDecisionsYouMore

They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life.

Jim Sullivan

LifeMakeupPartSessionLotsHazy

Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.

Jerry Lewis

CrystalWonderfulThingsSteveBilly

I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

Jenny Eclair

MeThinkSometimesDefendWithin

I'm an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.

Andy Cohen

Expert

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego.

Matt Haig

GoodMusicCreativeWritingWorld

I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.

John Rocha

FunPeopleSmallWantGroupAgainst

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Skylar Astin

I AmResearchVoiceThinkWillLike

When I was 27, I felt old. I didn't feel healthy. I just wasn't taking care of my body, and I had a body that wanted me to take care of it.

Matt Bomer

MeCareTake CareFeelBodyHealthy

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Moliere

I AmHumanSameMayOhAm

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

Lowell McAdam

RevolutionWaveCloudDigitalThird

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

ManBlindWillHurryThingsClear

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

Jason Alexander

FunnyCharacterPainMoreHimThan

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