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> 
> "IMHO, Interfaces are worthless." -- Randy Brukardt

I would not agree with that, they are a nice way to express that multiple objects with different internals can be manipulated in the same way.

UNIX files, for example, are an interface. You have no idea what they represent, but you know that you can most likely sequentially stream bytes to and from them.