Howard H. Aiken
Title: Professor Howard Hathaway Aiken
Full name: Howard Hathaway Aiken
Birthdate: March 8, 1900
Birthplace: Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date of Death: March 14, 1973
Occupation: Computer Pioneer
Profile: Invented IBM's Harvard Mark I computer which was the forerunner of the modern electronic digital computer.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hathaway_Aiken
Number of Quotes: 3
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.
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
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