Showing posts with label Quotations by John Backus. Show all posts
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Friday, February 27, 2009

Quotes by John Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007)

John Backus Quotes


- Much of my work has come from being lazy.

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

- You need the willingness to fail all the time.

- Our thirty year old belief that there is only one kind of computer is the basis for our belief that there is only one kind of programming language.