John Backus — American Scientist born on December 03, 1924,

John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form, a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. He also did research in function-level programming and helped to popularize it... (wikipedia)

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.
Much of my work has come from being lazy.
You need the willingness to fail all the time.