quotes about Recursion

last updated: November 28, 2023

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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“I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.”
“What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?”
“Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.”
“Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.”
“Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.”

Source : "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, November 2008.
“[My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.”

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“It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.”
“We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work all our days. This mortal probation is one in which we are to eat our bread in the sweat of our faces until we return to the dust from whence we came. Work is the law of life; it is the ruling principle in the lives of the Saints.”
“I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?”
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”