"If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is."

-- Andrew Plotkin

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“Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.”

Source : Peter Schjeldahl (2008). “Let's see: writings on art from the New Yorker”
“But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.”

Source : John Denham, “On Mr. John Fletcher's Works”
“He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.”
“An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services”
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
“But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.”
“As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.”
“Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.”

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