"Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths."

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Douglas Hofstadter

#Powerful Quotes #Giving Quotes #Matter Quotes

“How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.”
“How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!”
“We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.”
“Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.”
“Coal is My Worst Nightmare.”

Source : "Nightmare On Coal Street". www.desmogblog.com. December 19, 2008.
“I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.”
“User interface is customer service for the computer.”

Source : "Microsoft is ready to open a new, easy-to-use Window" by Jessica Mintz, The Associated Press, abcnews.go.com.
“Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.”

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