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"Anything you can do, I can do meta" -Rudolf Carnap
I think that should be Terry Prachett's slogan. Or Hofstadter's.
In Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Daniel Dennett leads the reader to believe he coined this phrase in a conversation with Douglas Hofstadter.
Where did you find this? Via Google I have only managed to trace it to a certain Samuel Hahn in 1991.