Howard Aiken famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
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Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States,
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Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
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I am a simple man and I want simple answers.
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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.
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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.
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Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. ...
-- Howard Aiken
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Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.
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For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.
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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
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