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Much of my work has come from being lazy.
John Backus / Computer Scientist
Being Lazy
Laziness
Lazy
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You need the willingness to fail all the time.
John Backus / Computer Scientist
Failing
Needs
Willingness
Fail
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They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.
John Backus / Computer Scientist
Medical School
School
Thinking
Want
Memorize
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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.
John Backus / Computer Scientist
Learning
Imagination
Creative
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You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.
John Backus / Computer Scientist
Doe
Ideas
Needs
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Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.
John Backus / Computer Scientist
Computer
Lazy
Writing
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Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language."
John Backus / Computer Scientist
Law
Ordinary
Understanding
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