Friday, November 10, 2006

Hofstadter's Law

Have you ever read about Hofstadter's Law?
If not, it's about time you do. It's true.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

But if you do take the law into account, wouldn't that mean that no task will ever be completed?

Christian said...

Ummm no, because you can never fully "take the law into account".
Trying to take the law into account will get you stuck in an infinite loop.

So if anything, it's an indication of how hard it is to take the law into account, i.e. to estimate how much time the task will take.