Recursive Quotes

#1. The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

James Black

#2. I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#3. A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.

Gerald Jay Sussman

#4. In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

Orson Scott Card

#5. It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.

Grant Morrison

#6. Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A.

King Tuff

#7. The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

Bob Barton

#8. He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle through thorny vines, veins of clotted pink juice.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#10. My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

Dennis Ritchie

#11. The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.

Neil Peart

#12. Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Aldous Huxley

#13. The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#14. I guess life is full of maybes.

Maureen Johnson

#15. Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

Ben Bernanke

#16. In theory, there's no difference between theory & practice, but in practice there is.

Jan L.A. Van De Snepscheut

#17. I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

Walter Mosley

#18. The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

Michael Shermer