“You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback f...” — Douglas Hofstadter Quote

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

On trade, a Conservative government would challenge China's actions on canola and meat imports through the World Trade Organization and withdraw funding from the Chinese-run Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds of irrationalities and stupid actions. I have some notion, and then I drop it because something else comes along. I'm forever darting from one side of the room to the other.