Account 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

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

— Douglas Hofstadter

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

— Peg Bracken

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Everything takes time. The problem is, people easily give up when they dont see the result instantly.

— Anmol Andore

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

— Edward Gibbon

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

— Mandy Patinkin

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

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Judy Woodruff

I've learned that everytime I count the time, it goes so long. But when I ignore it, it passed very quickly.

— Aldyna Threesya

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then…

— Lawrence Summers