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It always takes longer than you expect, even when you allow for that
Drawn from what Douglas Hofstadter said
What Douglas Hofstadter actually said
- Douglas Hofstadter Cognitive scientist, born in 1945, whose Gödel, Escher
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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↗Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979)archive.org
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