I hate it when people quote Hofstadter's "law" in a literal sense. It was never made to make any statement about timeline estimation. It was just an example of

I hate it when people quote Hofstadter's "law" in a literal sense. It was never made to make any statement about timeline estimation. It was just an example of a recursively-defined law. Honestly I'm not even sure how many of the other quotes are also taken out of context.