Hofstadter s Law: It always takes longer than you think it will take, even if you take into account Hofstadter s Law. (Douglas R. Hofstadter) Dear Reader, why did we begin the foreword of this second volume with the same quote as the ?rst? There we wrote that it took three years of intense work just to ?ll three centimeters of your bookshelf. The completion of this volume took four years and it is about four centimeters thick. Thus we have a con?rmed invariant which governs our writing: our velocity is one centimeter per year, after all e?ects due to Hofstadter s Law have been taken into...
Hofstadter s Law: It always takes longer than you think it will take, even if you take into account Hofstadter s Law. (Douglas R. Hofstadter) Dear Rea...
Hofstadter s Law: It always takes longer than you think it will take, even if you take into account Hofstadter s Law. (Douglas R. Hofstadter) Dear Reader, why did we begin the foreword of this second volume with the same quote as the ?rst? There we wrote that it took three years of intense work just to ?ll three centimeters of your bookshelf. The completion of this volume took four years and it is about four centimeters thick. Thus we have a con?rmed invariant which governs our writing: our velocity is one centimeter per year, after all e?ects due to Hofstadter s Law have been taken into...
Hofstadter s Law: It always takes longer than you think it will take, even if you take into account Hofstadter s Law. (Douglas R. Hofstadter) Dear Rea...