Leslie Lamport

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

"I think in other things that I've done, I can look back and see: "This idea developed from something else." Sometimes it would lead back to a previous idea of mine, very often it would lead to somethi…"

"Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will."

"The first thing is deciding what the program should do. If you don’t think carefully about that, it’s going to wind up not doing something that it probably should do or you wind up with an ‘absolute b…"

"With so many people doing so much writing, great writing is hard to find ... If you succeed in attaining a position that allows you to do something great, if you do something that really is great, and…"