Quotes About Recursion

#1. Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

James Gleick

#2. You can do anything with stacks and iteration that you can do with recursion.

Steve McConnell

#3. Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

Verity Stob

#4. Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

Giles Foden

#5. In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

Mark Jason Dominus

#6. This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. It just means that I have no idea how, or indeed if, Lisp handles exceptions.

Verity Stob

#7. RECURSION [Now rare or oh.s. 16261. A backward movement, return.

William F. Clocksin

#8. To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

Stephen Hawking

#9. 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

#10. Names like clouds. Names like forests. Names like ever unfolding mathematical structures - names that begat themselves, in dreams of recursion. Names that split the world in two. Names that would drive a nail through your sanity.

Alastair Reynolds

#11. Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

Ledisi

#12. I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one.

Steven Wright

#13. My life came complete with a factory-installed biological brother seven years my senior.

Augusten Burroughs

#14. I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

Shelby Lynne

#15. I love you," said Bekka.

"I know," I said.

"I know you know," she said. "But I didn't know that you knew I knew you knew. And now I do.

Scott Alexander

#16. We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create ... It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do!

C.K. Webb

#17. The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.

Leonard Jacobson

#18. Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

William Penn

#19. I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

Peg Bracken

#20. There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here.

David Niven

#21. A smile is the best make-up.

Debasish Mridha

#22. I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

Clarice Lispector

#23. My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?

Anonymous

#24. True love stories have no endings... author unknown

K.K. Gould

#25. Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.

Nahiyan Bin Asadullah

#26. There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.

Philip K. Dick