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“John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

tags: complexity, john-von-neumann, math, mathematics

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#2

“Computer science is not about machines, in
the same way that astronomy is not about
telescopes. There is an essential unity of
mathematics and computer science.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

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#3

“Lisp has jokingly been called “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

tags: lisp, programming, thinking

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#4

“I think it wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to see and absorb calculational arguments so effective that you will never be able to forget that exposure.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

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#5

“The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

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#6

“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, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

tags: chaos, order, science

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#7

“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”
― Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

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#8

“A mirror mirroring a mirror”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

tags: mirror, self-referential, strange-loop

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#9

“What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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#10

“This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

tags: abstraction, generality, prototypes, specificity

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#11

“I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

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#12

“[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

tags: gödel, gödel-s-incompleteness-theorem, mat, mathematics, proof, truth

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#13

“For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

tags: problem-solving

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#14

“We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is ourself.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

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#15

“No, no - I think about thinking”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

tags: strange-loop, thinking

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#16

“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Truly yours,
Albert Camus”

I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attitude, full-quotes, life-lessons, self-worth

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#17

“To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.”
― Gregg Braden

tags: creation, healing, inspiration, law-of-attraction, magic, metaphysics, new-age, power, reality

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#18

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

tags: humor, new-year

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#19

“Put another way, Peat thinks that synchronicities reveal the absence of division between the physical world and our inner psychological reality. Thus the relative scarcity of synchronous experiences in our lives shows not only the extent to which we have fragmented ourselves from the general field of consciousness, but also the degree to which we have sealed ourselves off from the infinite and dazzling potential of the deeper orders of mind and reality. According to Peat, when we experience a synchronicity, what we are really experiencing "is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and extending throughout society and nature, moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.”
― Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe

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#20

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent

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#21

“When clients tell me how much they suffered from the actions of family members, my first question to their conscious mind is, "If you had not been exposed to this person as a child, what would you now lack in understanding?" It may take a while, but the answer is in our minds. There are spiritual reasons for our being raised as children around certain kinds of people, just as other people are designated to be near us as adults.”
― Michael Newton, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

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#22

“You know, if it weren't for Earth's beauty-the birds-flowers-trees-I would never go back. It's too much trouble.”
― Michael Newton, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

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#23

“The important thing is to recognize our faults, avoid self-denial, and have the courage and self-sufficiency to make constant adjustments in our lives.”
― Michael Newton, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

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#24

“We bear responsibility in the evolution of a higher consciousness for ourselves and others in life. Thus, our journey is a collective one.”
― Michael Newton, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

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#25

“an internal form of acting, a meditation, a meditation that consciously reconnects you to all life everywhere. It is what the Taoists say: The way to do is to be.”
― Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Vol. 1

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#26

“Woman is the light of God.”
― Rumi

tags: god, persian, persian-poetry, religion, rumi, rumi-poetry, women

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#27

“There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”
― Rumi

tags: rumi

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#28

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
― Rumi

tags: rumi

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#29

“Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget yourself and be!”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: aware, awareness, awareness-quotes, be, become, beloved, conscious, consciousness, consciousness-quotes, dance, enjoy, feet, forget, hafez, hafiz, harmony, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, khayyam, kojouri, let-go, letting-go-quotes, life, live, living-in-the-now, love, lover, moment, music, present, rumi, saadi, sing, song, spiritual, spirituality, sufi, surrender, voice, yourself

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#30

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: analogy, anew, art, author, bath, change, clothes, creative-arts, emerge, fear, immerse, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, life, metamorphosis, metaphor, novelist, poem, poesia, poetess, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote, read, reading, reading-quotes, soak, touch, transcend, transcendence, transform, undress, water, wet, write, writing

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