Bonus all-time great paper review: "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 c

Bonus all-time great paper review: "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." (from Lamport at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/time-clocks-ordering-events-distributed-system/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fum%2Fpeople%2Flamport%2Fpubs%2Ftime-clocks.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/time-cl...).