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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This entry was written by Lloyd, posted on March 20, 2007 at 4:56 pm, filed under Opinion and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. Perry Nelson
    Posted March 21, 2007 at 7:15 am | Permalink

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

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