"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."

--

Source : "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.

Howard Aiken

#Errors Quotes #Effort Quotes #Desire Quotes

“...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Beauty grown sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equal fate; And when at last defeated in His wars, They have gone down under the same white stars, We shall no longer hear the little cry Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.”
“I am a traditionalist, I'm not a conventional person, but I am a traditionalist in the true form of the word, in that your heart is opening, you're absolutely there for everyone, the face of pain has no tradition, by the way, and in my tradition, a guru simply means the removal of darkness.”
“Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it”
“It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.”
“It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures for their own sake. But to make conscious decisions and choices, and it includes this constant questioning - Why am I taking pictures? Because really, the world is... it has pictures enough. I mean, there are enough pictures out there.”
“I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.”
“External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.”

You may also like:

Ada Lovelace
Countess of Lovelace
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician
Charles Babbage
Mathematician
Grace Hopper
Computer Scientist
Jack Kilby
Electrical engineer
John Bardeen
Physicist
John Napier
Mathematician
John von Neumann
Mathematician
Konrad Zuse
Civil engineer