Quotes by : Douglas R. Hofstadter

It now becomes clear that consistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the....

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone....

And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things....

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

People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths,....

No, no - I think about thinking

I am a lifelong lover of form–content interplay, and this book is no exception. As with several of....

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

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

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

Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that....