I'm not a genius. I'm not in the league with people like Einstein or Feynman or I can name him. And he dumps his people. But if I've been more successful than them, I think it's because of my different way of looking at things, not by being brighter than them. It's very simple. I used to explain why I'm different from most computer people is because I think like a mathematician and I approach things mathematically, not computationally. If we were to focus in on the looking at things differently than other people, can you describe what your angle is?
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for “writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding.”
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