Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.

— David Wheeler (computer scientist), Turing Lecture (1993)

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221210039/http://research.microsoft.com/Lampson/Slides/TuringLecture.doc

Attributed to Wheeler by Butler Lampson in his 1993 Turing Lecture.

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