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Hofstadter's law
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English
Etymology
en Douglas Hofstadter = 1945, who introduced it in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Proper noun
The self-referential adage that a task always takes longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's law is taken into account.
Translations
self-referential adage
French: fr loi de Hofstadter f