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"Hofstadter’s Law says tasks take longer than expected even after accounting for that tendency."

The MAA quotation page attributes the self-referential formulation to Douglas Hofstadter and cites Gödel, Escher, Bach from 1979.

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Source title Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1945 - )
Source authors Mathematical Association of America
Source year 1979
Confidence high
Importance mid
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