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		dstein64 on April 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies > "Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law" - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. 20th anniversary ed., 1999, p. 152. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law

jxy on April 6, 2021 [–]

Ha, you beat me to it. Though you quote it wrong. That was the whole sentence in the G.E.B.. Without the quotes.

dstein64 on April 6, 2021 | [–]

I updated the the quote. Thanks!

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