Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,808 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Howard H. Aiken
3 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.”
Howard H. Aiken (1900–1973) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine" (1937)
“Originally one thought that if there were a half dozen large computers in this country, hidden away in research laboratories, this would take care of all requirements we had throughout the country.”
Howard H. Aiken (1900–1973) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1952. Quoted in I. Bernard Cohen: Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. 1999. MIT Press. p. 292. And I. Bernard Cohen: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 20.3 pp. 27–33. (1998)
“Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”
Howard H. Aiken (1900–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Portraits in Silicon (1987) by Robert Slater