Hofstadter's law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account." It should be considered one of the basic axioms o

Hofstadter's law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account." It should be considered one of the basic axioms of programming, maybe even engineering, although I'm just biased because it is an infinite (perhaps even strange) loop.