Hofstadter's law
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after Douglas Hofstadter (1945–), who introduced it in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Proper noun[edit]
- The self-referential adage that a task always takes longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's law is taken into account.
Translations[edit]
self-referential adage
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