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Hofstadter's law
Adage referring to time estimates
Hofstadter's law
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. The law is often cited by programmers in discussions of techniques to improve productivity, such as The Mythical Man-Month or extreme programming.
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