Hofstadter — may refer to:People with the surname Hofstadter: * Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945), American professor, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach * Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990), American Nobel Prize winner in physics * Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970),… … Wikipedia
Douglas Hofstadter — Douglas R. Hofstadter Hofstadter in Bologna, Italy, in March 2002 Born February 15, 1945 (1945 02 15) (age 66) New York, New York Occupation … Wikipedia
Moore's law — Plot of CPU transistor counts against dates of introduction. Note the logarithmic vertical scale; the line corresponds to exponential growth with transistor count doubling every two years … Wikipedia
Murphy's law — For other uses, see Murphy s Law (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Muphry s law. Murphy s law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong . Contents 1 History 2 Association with Murphy … Wikipedia
Parkinson's law — Not to be confused with Parkinson s Law of Triviality. Parkinson s law is the adage first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson as the first sentence of a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955:[1][2] “ … Wikipedia
Finagle's law — of Dynamic Negatives (also known as Finagle s corollary to Murphy s Law) is usually rendered: Anything that can go wrong, will at the worst possible moment One variant (known as O Toole s Corollary of Finagle s Law) favored among hackers is a… … Wikipedia
United States antitrust law — is the body of laws that prohibits anti competitive behavior (monopoly) and unfair business practices. These competition laws make illegal certain practices deemed to hurt businesses or consumers or both, or generally to violate standards of… … Wikipedia
List of eponymous laws — This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person. In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson s law. In others, the work or… … Wikipedia
Planning fallacy — The planning fallacy is the tendency to underestimate task completion times. Real life examples in public policy may include the construction of the Sydney Opera House and the Big Dig, both of which ran many years past their planned schedule.In… … Wikipedia
Social Darwinism — is a term commonly used for theories of society that emerged in England and the United States in the 1870s, seeking to apply the principles of Darwinian evolution to sociology and politics.[1] It especially refers to notions of struggle for… … Wikipedia
