#hofstadter's_law

Hofstadter's law

Self-referential adage referring to time estimates

Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity:Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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