Fail All the Time

John Backus said, “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.”

That is how you write software, and do anything worth doing in life.

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One Response to Fail All the Time

  1. Perry Nelson says:

    Thanks, Lloyd. I like the quotes and appreciate your sharing them.

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