There's a list of his papers with little notes by him on every one at https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pu

There's a list of his papers with little notes by him on every one at https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html . His casual notes are themselves an absolute education. My favorite is on "Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System", where he applies the lessons of special relativity to understand computers, and he says: > Jim Gray once told me that he had heard two different opinions of this paper: that it's trivial and that it's brilliant. I can't argue with the former, and I am disinclined to argue with the latter.