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Toño’s Quotes

“I wish my wish would not be granted!”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

tags: metawish, self-referential, strange-loop

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“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Deep understanding of causality sometimes requires the understanding of very large patterns and their abstract relationships and interactions, not just the understanding of microscopic objects interacting in microscopic time intervals.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

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“As veces a mellor maneira de explicar algo e calando”
― Xosé Neira Vilas, Memoirs of a Peasant Boy

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“The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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