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Hofstadter's law en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after Douglas Hofstadter (1945–), who introduced it in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

Meanings

  1. The self-referential adage that a task always takes longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's law is taken into account.

Translations (1)

fr loi de Hofstadter (self-referential adage)

wikipedia: Gödel, Escher, Bach