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To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. -- Stephen Hawking
Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. -- Verity Stob
In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion. -- Mark Jason Dominus
If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is. -- Andrew Plotkin
This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. It just means that I have no idea how, or indeed if, Lisp handles exceptions. -- Verity Stob
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. -- Douglas Hofstadter
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head. -- Giles Foden

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