The story
Named after Douglas Hofstadter (1945–), who introduced it in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hofstadter's law
Today it means: The self-referential adage that a task always takes longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's law is taken into account. Full definition →