# Leslie Lamport ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-05-04 Leslie Lamport.jpg|400]] Best known for his work on distributed systems. He also created LaTeX. He won the 2013 Turing Award. He's behind the following papers: - Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System - The Byzantine Generals' Problem - About [[Byzantine failures]] - ... Those are some of the most cited papers in the field of computer science. They describe algorithms such as: - The [[Paxos algorithm]] - The Lamport signature - ... ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Leslie Lamport]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Leslie Lamport]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[If you think without writing, you only think you're thinking]] - [[Writing is nature's way of telling us how sloppy our thinking is]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Leslie Lamport]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[If you think without writing, you only think you're thinking]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #books AND [[Leslie Lamport]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC -->