John Backus Quotes

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.