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Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by tombert on Friday May 31, 2019 @11:20AM (#20061707)
I love that quote, but Lamport actually says in the Specifying Systems book that he got it from Dick Guindon.

I mention this purely in the interest of pedantry.

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Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by dmreedy on Friday May 31, 2019 @01:57PM (#20063324)
I had a professor who gave me another favorite quote of mine: "It's worth being pedantic at least twice in your life"

I think the ideas are related.

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