Leslie Lamport Quotes
- A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
- Formatting is no substitute for writing.
- When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
- Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.
- There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If…
- Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.