Let's make this birthday one to remember.

80 years old (Born on February 15, 1945)

Happy Birthday, Douglas Hofstadter! May your celebrations loop infinitely with joy, much like the recursive brilliance of "Gödel, Escher, Bach." Your Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning masterpiece continues to inspire minds everywhere—proving that great ideas never age; they simply become more elegantly self-referential.

From unraveling cognitive mysteries to exploring consciousness through playful paradoxes, you've shown us how beautifully intertwined art and logic can be. Here's hoping this birthday brings you as many delightful surprises as your groundbreaking insights have brought readers since 1979. Keep defying boundaries—and may your cake slices always form an eternal golden braid!