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You need the willingness to fail all the time.

John Backus

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John Backus
Age: 82 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 3
Died: 2007
Died: March 17
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
John Warner Backus
John W. Backus
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