John Backus Inspirational Quotes (5)

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.

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.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

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.