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

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Computer scientists from the United KingdomUniversity of Cambridge alumniFellows of the Royal SocietyUniversity of Cambridge facultyPeople from Birmingham
Original Language: English

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Lampson uses the phrase without attribution in Authentication in distributed systems: theory and practice (November 1992)