Loops Quotes

• Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Technology, Use, Feedback

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• The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Way, Linear

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.37, Melville House

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• The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Brain, Body

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• I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Important, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

  Haruki Murakami

  Past, Space, Substance

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• Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

  Mason Cooley

  Broken, Break Out, Reason

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• If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right?

  Edward Boyden

  Law, Understanding, Brain

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

  Linus Torvalds

  Doe, Linux, Infinite

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• Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

  George Eliot

  Long, Way, Now And Then

  "Complete Works of George Eliot".

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• If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Done, Want

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• You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

  Michael Josephson

  Moral, Judgment, Holes

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• Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops of causal flow. These phenomenon are just as real as atoms - perhaps even more real. If anything, the entire universe is actually made from events, of which atoms are merely some of the consequences.

  Steve Grand

  Real, Flow, Causes

  Steve Grand (2003). “Creation: Life and How to Make It”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Feedback, Improvisation

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.

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• Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Prejudice, Belief, Judgment

  Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Deepak Chopra (2012). “Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, andSpiritual Well-Being”, p.53, Harmony

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• A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.

  Jedediah Purdy

  Dragons, Circles, Icons

  "The God of the Digerati". Essay in the American Prospect Magazine, prospect.org. March-April 1998.

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• This is one Fruit Loop beyond certifiable.

  Darynda Jones

  Fruit

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• Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

  Talulah Riley

  Moving, People, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

  A. S. Byatt

  Vocabulary, Circles, Lines

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 04, 2013

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• People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loop-holes.

  William Rotsler

  People, Holes, Findings

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• Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Character, Doors, Holes

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• In the deep shadow of the porch
  A slender bind-weed springs,
  And climbs, like airy acrobat,
  The trellises, and swings
  And dances in the golden sun
  In fairy loops and rings.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Weed, Spring, Swings

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• Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

  David Allen

  Doe, Attention, Pulling

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• I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.

  Jim Butcher

  Ideas, Missing, Healthy

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• W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

  W. C. Fields

  Bible, Book, Reading

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• I think of every double-decker loop as another loop towards my death. And that is why I've always thought of the double-decker loop as - each loop as a continuous and individualized search for perfection.

  Timothy Levitch

  Thinking, Perfection

  "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.

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