Accounts Quote by Douglas Hofstadter

“Hofstadter’s law tells us: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

— Christopher Chabris

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

— Douglas Hofstadter

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

— Edward Gibbon

Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you expect it to take longer than you expect.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.

— Charles Kingsley

If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are;…

— Andrew Plotkin

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.

— Peg Bracken

“In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.”

— Steven S. Skiena

“Effective algorithms make assumptions, show a bias toward a simple solutions, trade off the costs of error against the cost of delay, and take…

— Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

— Judy Woodruff

By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it…

— John von Neumann

The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.

— Wolfgang Pauli