{"id":103,"date":"2004-07-12T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=103"},"modified":"2004-07-12T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2004-07-12T06:55:33","slug":"hoftadters-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/hoftadters-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoftadter’s law"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once heard Hofstadter’s Law of computer software engineering:<\/p>\n

It will always take longer than you think, even when Hofstadter’s Law is taken into account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having just spent the day thinking and talking about fault-tolerant quantum computing, I think there’s a corresponding Hofstadter’s Law of quantum computer hardware engineering:<\/p>\n

It will always be more difficult than you think, even when Hofstadter’s Law is taken into account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once heard Hofstadter’s Law of computer software engineering: It will always take longer than you think, even when Hofstadter’s Law is taken into account. Having just spent the day thinking and talking about fault-tolerant quantum computing, I think there’s a corresponding Hofstadter’s Law of quantum computer hardware engineering: It will always be more difficult… Continue reading Hoftadter’s law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}