Source: Mockingjay
“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”
Variant: Look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they really are.
Source: Mockingjay
Sometimes it would lead back to a previous idea of mine, very often it would lead to something somebody else had done. But the Bakery algorithm just seemed to come out of thin air to me. There was nothing like it that preceded it, so perhaps that's why I'm proudest of it.
As quoted in [Dahlia Malkhi, Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport, https://books.google.com/books?id=z_m2DwAAQBAJ, 16 September 2019, Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 978-1-4503-7273-2, 137]
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 37, "Experienced well-being", page 397 (ISBN 9780141033570).
“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”
"Experience"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in: IEEE (1985) Bridging the present and the future: IEEE Professional Communication Society conference record, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 16-18, 1985. p. 14.
“Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 16
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
