I think in other things that I've done, I can look back and see: "This idea developed from something else." Sometimes it would lead back to a previous idea of mine, very often it would lead to something somebody else had done. But the Bakery algorithm just seemed to come out of thin air to me. There was nothing like it that preceded it, so perhaps that's why I'm proudest of it.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I think in other things that I've done, I can look back and see: "This idea developed from something else." Sometimes it would lead back to a previous idea of mine, very often it would lead to something somebody else had done. But the Bakery algorithm just seemed to come out of thin air to me. There was nothing like it that preceded it, so perhaps that's why I'm proudest of it." in the context of "As quoted in Dahlia Malkhi (16 September 2019), Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport, page: 137, publisher: Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-4503-7273-2" to mean that wisdom is timeless.