David Wheeler (computer scientist)



David John Wheeler (9 February 1927 – 13 December 2004) was a computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of Cambridge.

Quotes

 * Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
 * Attributed to David Wheeler by Butler Lampson in his Turing Lecture (17 February 1993)
 * Lampson uses the phrase without attribution in Authentication in distributed systems: theory and practice (November 1992)


 * Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.