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This article is from the Hofstadter and GEB FAQ, by TANAKA Tomoyuki tanaka@cs.indiana.edu with numerous contributions by others.

6. Hofstadter/GEB mentioned in the movie "2010", Jargon File, etc.

from the Unix "fortune" command:
>
> Hofstadter's Law:
> It always takes longer than you expect, even when you
> take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Hofstadter's "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies" was
the first book sold over the Web by amazon.com (May 10, 1995).
source: "SmartMoney" (published by WSJ) Aug 1998, p.104

http://beast.cc.emory.edu/Jargon30/APPEND_C/GEB_BOOK.HTML
http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/b/Bibliography.html

http://beast.cc.emory.edu/Jargon30/JARGON_G/GLARK.HTML
http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/g/glark.html

http://beast.cc.emory.edu/Jargon30/JARGON_M/MU.HTML
http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/m/mu.html

http://beast.cc.emory.edu/Jargon30/JARGON_Q/QUINE.HTML
http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/q/quine.html

http://beast.cc.emory.edu/Jargon30/JARGON_R/RECURSIO.HTML
http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/r/recursion.html

http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/h/HackerWritingStyle.html

http://search.go2net.com/crawler?general=Jargon+File

Arthur C. Clarke's "2010" (1982) Chapter 26,
commenting on Hal's malfunction in 2001:

"As a result, Hal developed what would be called, in human
terms, a psychosis - specifically, schizophrenia. Dr. C.
informs me that, in technical terminology, Hal became trapped
in a Hofstadter-Moebius loop, a situation apparently not
uncommon among advanced computers with autonomous goal-seeking
programs. He suggests that for further information you contact
Professor Hofstadter himself."

(contributed by Frederic Marchal <aardvark@worldnet.fr>)

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