Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
Douglas HofstadterYou can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.
Douglas HofstadterThis idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
Douglas Hofstadter