Howard Aiken Quotes

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.

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Howard Aiken

Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.

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Howard Aiken

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

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Howard Aiken

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

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Howard Aiken

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

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Howard Aiken

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.

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Howard Aiken

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

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