Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
Douglas HofstadterYou make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.
Douglas HofstadterNo reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
Douglas Hofstadter