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.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• 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.

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• I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

  Howard Aiken

  Simple, Men, Simplicity

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Howard Aiken

  Book, Computer, Whole

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• 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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