David Wheeler (computer scientist)

thumb|Wheeler (first row, second from right, 1949) 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=xRLqGKY8axwC&q=compatibility+is+deliberately+repeating+the+mistakes+of+others&pg=PA73 Trust, Complexity and Control: Confidence in a Convergent World Cofta Piotr 2007-09-27 John Wiley & Sons 9780470517840 en External links Category:University of Cambridge faculty Category:Computer scientists from the United Kingdom Category:1927 births Category:2004 deaths Category:People from Birmingham Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:University of Cambridge alumni