Howard Hathaway Aiken (8 March 1900 – 14 March 1973) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.
As quoted in Portraits in Silicon (1987) by Robert Slater Variant: Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.As quoted in A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus (1988) by Eric A. Weiss, p. 404
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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