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Howard Aiken Quotes

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken
Life And Love, Business, Congratulations
"A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

Howard Aiken
United States, Would Be, Needs
" "Aug. 7, 1944: Harvard, Ibm Dedicate Mark I Computer" by Randy Alfred, www.wired.com. August 7, 2008.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

Howard Aiken
Simple, Men, Simplicity

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

Howard Aiken
Mean, Problem, Difficulty

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

Howard Aiken
Errors, Effort, Desire
"Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Howard Aiken
Book, Computer, Whole

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

Howard Aiken
Business, Science, Office Work
"A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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