Hofstadter Law Quotes & Sayings

Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the deep years, anything but disillusion and bitterness, and in front of him, nothing but a storm which contains nothing new, neither learning nor pain. — Charles Baudelaire

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood. — Paul McCartney

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. — Douglas Hofstadter

I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military. — Ryan Montgomery

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

She felt sorry for the female who had been driven to such traits. Who had kept herself apart from all emotions. The female had been born under a curse. The female had done evil and had evil done unto her. The female hardened herself, her mind and her emotions becoming steel. The female had been wrong about that locking down, that self containment. It was not a case of strength, as she always told herself. It was strictly survival ... — J.R. Ward

And so it began, I thought, the first wave of a revolution against oppression, fought with corn syrup and chocolate. — Chloe Neill

You want to have a loving, safe relationship with your child, but you can't because you have to do these things to protect them or protect them from themselves - or try to make sure they don't become a vampire! Your desires and your needs are in opposition, and that's always fun to play. — Jack Coleman

wisdom of the outdoors, until — Wilbur Smith