lol in this thread full of dozens of paragraph-long attacks on this book, yours is by far the most damning. And funny. For those that are unaware like me:

  Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book GEB…:

  Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

  **History**

  In 1979, Hofstadter introduced the law in connection with a discussion of chess-playing computers, which at the time were continually being beaten by top-level human players, despite outpacing humans in depth of analysis. Hofstadter wrote:

  In the early days of computer chess, people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law.