Quotations by Douglas Hofstadter

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"One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented."
 -Douglas Hofstadter,
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in Godel, Escher, Bach
 

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