"Whenever I go the a conference and I discover that there will be a presentation about Byzantine fault tolerance, I always feel an immediate, unshakeable sadnes

"Whenever I go the a conference and I discover that there will be a presentation about Byzantine fault tolerance, I always feel an immediate, unshakeable sadness, kind of like when you realize that bad things happen to good people, or that Keanu Reeves will almost certainly make more money than you over arbitrary time scales." -- James Mickens http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thesaddestmoment.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thesaddes...