11 Quotes by Howard Aiken

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

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

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.

May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either impeach him or get off his back

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

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.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

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

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. ...