AtomicQuote

John Backus Quote

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

Tags: medical, school, thinking, want

Related Quotes

Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts

Steven Magee

Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts

Tags: abuse, abusers, addict, addicted, addiction, addiction and recovery, addictions, addicts, altitude, altitudes

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Ivan Illich

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Tags: health, medical, medicine, people

All the whackjob psychologists out there will tell you that grief is a process. Some say it has five stages. Others say that grief should only last two years at the lost, otherwise it's "abnormal". Pu...

Rebecca McNutt

All the whackjob psychologists out there will tell you that grief is a process. Some say it has five stages. Others say that grief should only last two years at the lost, otherwise it's "abnormal". Pu...

Tags: burning, candle, death, depression, doctors, drugs, dying, flame, frozen, grief

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

Ken Calvert

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

Tags: medical, research, human, products

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Anton Chekhov

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Tags: medical, lawyers, difference, you

The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sen...

Steven Magee

The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sen...

Tags: 911, armed, armed and dangerous, armed violence, calling, common, drug, drug abuse, drug use, drugs

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Tags: medical, doctor, stupidity, weakness

When I was instructed to use medical oxygen to do my job at the W. M. Keck Observatory from 2001 to 2006, I was never told about the legal health information that is now posted on oxygen cylinders. My...

Steven Magee

When I was instructed to use medical oxygen to do my job at the W. M. Keck Observatory from 2001 to 2006, I was never told about the legal health information that is now posted on oxygen cylinders. My...

Tags: administration, altitude, cdc, course, cylinders, daily, developed, facility, fda, gas

My Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) appeared to be caused by blood clots in the brain which had to be flushed out to cure it. The mystery was why I had the blood clots there, which recently was...

Steven Magee

My Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) appeared to be caused by blood clots in the brain which had to be flushed out to cure it. The mystery was why I had the blood clots there, which recently was...

Tags: asd, atrial, blood, brain, caused, clots, cure, defect, ehs, electromagnetic

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

Anthony Liccione

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

Tags: adultry, alimony, annulment, assets, beans, broke, child support, custody, divorce, drained
About John Backus

John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages. He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?"
The IEEE awarded Backus the W. W. McDowell Award in 1967 for the development of FORTRAN. He received the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the 1977 Turing Award "for profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages".
John Backus retired in 1991. He died at his home in Ashland, Oregon on March 17, 2007.