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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
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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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