“Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.”

—  David Wheeler (computer scientist)

Trust, Complexity and Control: Confidence in a Convergent World, Cofta, Piotr, 2007-09-27, John Wiley & Sons, 9780470517840, en https://books.google.com/books?id=xRLqGKY8axwC&q=compatibility+is+deliberately+repeating+the+mistakes+of+others&pg=PA73,

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British computer scientist 1927–2004

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