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Assuming we're thinking of the same person, I believe it went:

"There are three types of consistent distributed systems: paxos, broken protocols, and single points of failures."

i don't understand why people won't just say alv. he won't hurt you.

Really sucks the mystery out of the room though, doesn't it?

It's almost more impressive that people know who it is without saying the name.

You're assuming the name matters more than the content.

i guess he never explained a false dichotomy to you :).

knowing who said this allows readers to be able to look up more of the (unfortunately scant) content publicly available from him.