Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
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Douglas R. Hofstadter was a contemporary American professor of cognitive science. Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and a National Book Award for Science. Read more on Wikipedia →